Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
En meget forvirret tjener, Jimmy, kommer til sin café, hvor Slim Summerville er vært. Under serveringen laver han en masse ravage, og værten beder ham om at sætte et skilt i vinduet om at man søg...
Sponsored by Glasgow Corporation Education Committee, this educational film introduces the chief tools used by the carpenter.
The sisters of an emir spend their holidays on Rhodes, where they fall in love with two young men who do not know who the girls are. The two sons of a businessman flirt with two models, who they think...
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Mexico's ambassador to Spain, Colonel Adalberto Tejeda, reads a message from his government which reaffirms its support for the Spanish Re...
Towards the end of the war, Eleni (Afroditi Grigoriadou) meets Kostas (Vyron Pallis) a guerilla who is sought by the Germans. One night, the partisan, who is wounded, arrives at the house of his broth...
A girl doesn’t know if she is the foster- or natural daughter of captain Andreas. She becomes engaged to captain Alexis, despite the reactions of the latter’s mother. Her fiancé, after an acciden...
Episode of the monthly series of stories from the book Cuore of Edmondo De Amicis. In the town hall there is a solemn ceremony of handing over the medal for civil valor. The winner is a Piedmont boy w...
85-year old Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) at work in his home Ainola. Press conference at the Finnish Cultural Foundation on the Sibelius Medal (Wäinö Aaltonen, Dr Puntila). First Sibelius Medal present...
American film crew in Finland making a tourist film in colour. Technology students mark the 60th birthday of industrialist Wilhelm Wahlforss by offering him a helicopter flight from his villa in Toppe...
Marathon walk, Finland v. Sweden at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Football match, Finland v. Brazil, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Finland’s first cat show at Kunsthalle Helsinki. Padasjoki Natural Park....