The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
A promotional film for George Waterston and Sons of Edinburgh, Wax Chandlers. This film shows interiors and machinery of the firm's old wax making factory at St. John's Hill, just prior to demolition....
In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
The poster depicts the three leading actors, Vasilis Avlonitis, Georgia Vasileiadou, and Nikos Rizos in three different comic scenes. Georgia Vasileiadou is smoking showily, Nikos Rizos is offering he...
Trine Vester: A classic tale of good and evil - a dramaturgic symphony, in which the movements are the source of understanding.
A drunken man staggers around Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square and George Square on a beautiful sunlit morning. He seems to be troubled by the drunken events that led him here... Seeing a destitute m...
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
The children of Rosehearty Primary School join with older members of the village to record memories of the village in the early half of the century, illustrated by a varied montage of photographs. Inc...
Black Hills-bjergene vest for Wounded Knee er smukke turistattraktioner i dag ¿ for 100 år siden var området skueplads for massakren på Sioux-indianerne. I filmen følges dels en amerikansk famili...
Denne prisvindende portrætfilm om Velvet Undergrounds frontfigur og Andy Warhols yndlingsblondine Nico giver et usminket men respektfuldt indblik i hendes omvæltende liv fra feteret Vogue-fotomodel ...
Da den svenskfødte sanger Jussi Björling døde i 1960, blot 49 år gammel, havde han opnået et internationalt renommé som en af operahistoriens største tenorer. Og som en af Enrico Carusos få v...
Som selvlært sanger var den danskfødte Helge Rosvænge (1897-1972) noget af en ener blandt operatenorernes verdenselite. Efter debuten i 1921 virkede Rosvænge mest i Tyskland og Østrig, hvor han m...
Den danskfødte sanger Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973) regnes som en af operahistoriens førende heltetenorer. Efter debuten i »Tannhäuser" i 1918 blev Melchior især kendt som Wagner-fortolker, idet h...
Report on the Nordic art project FLYING CONCRETE in Copenhagen from July 23th to September 15th, 1984. Artists represented: Greenland: Jessie Christensen. Finland: Pekka Nevaleinen / Hannu Siren. Swed...
Troy og Gabriella har taget hul på deres sidste år på high school. Ligesom deres kammerater på East High skal de nu videre i livet med deres erfaringer fra high school i bagagen, med store håb ti...
Nick kommer tit på New Yorks indie-rock scene, hvor han plejer sine hjertesorger og spiller bas i et hardcore bøsse-band, The Jerk Offs. Norah er i en mindre krise i sit liv, hvor hun stiller spørg...