A short domestic comedy in which a clock-repairer's brother-in-law causes havoc by getting the Burgh Council to deliver the town hall clock to the house for repair.
A Scottish women's act of charity inadvertently sends a disabled Indian beggar boy on a difficult, spiritual journey from the streets of Mumbai to an ancient hilltop temple.
Ramsay MacDonald unveiling the Burns Memorial at Dumfries. Filmed for Gaumont British News. [see also ref. 0547]
A modern fairytale. Eleven year old Gemma is a captive, like the animals which fill the menagerie which is her home.
Alex is a dreamer, Mari is a realist: two Highland lovers living in a caravan in the West of Scotland. Trout is a kooky tale of what happens when a bizarre chain of events shakes up their quiet life.
Cannonman tells the story of Dafyd, a downtrodden circus performer trying desperately to break free from the shackles of his tyrannical bearded wife.
An instructional safety film showing schoolchildren how to cross the road safely.
Short sequence of amateur footage of Coatbridge Town Hall being destroyed by fire.
(Reel 1) Off the British coast, U-boat 32 attacks merchant ships. The German captain, Stackmeyer, is saluted by his Admiral, who warns that the blockade of Britain will be tightened; later, the U-boat...
Episode of the series "Aviation in Brescia": airplane exercises featuring the pilots Curtiss, Rougier, Calderara, Blériot and Cobianchi.
This documentary puts together different moments of Pier Antonio Quarantotto Gambini’s poetic journey, pausing on the only work in verse by this writer from Trieste, “Racconto d'amore” (Lo...
I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a ...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on the funeral of Baron Manfred von Richthofen ('the Red Baron') at Bertangles, Western Front, 22nd April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel ...
I. Newsreel item showing the remains of the Cloth Hall and water tower at Ypres, Western Front, March-April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on the Earl of Scarborough inspecting 1...
Mister Pijp is called up for a renewed service. Comical and romantic intrigues follow when his fianceé goes with him in disguise.
War drama about a father and a son who depart to the French-German front. The son is deceased during a battle, which great sadness for the father.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.