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.
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 ...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
On board of a German battleship.
The film gives a vivid and lively picture of landscape, buildings, industry and everyday life in the small city of Sandefjord in the southern parts of Norway.
"USA Excursion Steamer Disaster" (208-2) "Rescuers working on the «Eastland» which capsized in the Chicago River", with the loss of over one thousand lives."Training mules for the Army" (208-2) "Mr ...
The film shows a gathering in the city of Lillehammer in Norway by farmers from Gudbrandsdalen. We also visit several places in Gudbrandsdalen before returning to the farmers' association's gathering ...
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
Romantic film in which a couple who have been together for fifty years reminisce about the time they first met. Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their f...