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Videos
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OSTRICHES AND OTHER ODDITIES
non-fiction
1951
National Library of Scotland

Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...

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MALE AND FEMALE
non-fiction / Educational film
1980
National Library of Scotland
Other title(s):
- Teenage Talk-In series

Teenagers voice their opinions on stereotypes and the issue of equality.

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BILLY AND ZORBA
Feature film
1999
National Library of Scotland
Other title(s):
- Tartan Shorts series

In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.

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THEN AND NOW
non-fiction / Documentary film
2003
National Library of Scotland
Other title(s):
- This Scotland series

The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.

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ROSEHEARTY THEN AND NOW
non-fiction / Documentary film
1989
National Library of Scotland

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...

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CHEMICALS AND ILLUMINANTS
Feature film / Experimental film
1993
National Library of Scotland
Other title(s):
- First Reels series

An experimental film in the form of a riddle by artist Gillian Steel.

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IN AND AROUND ACHARACLE
non-fiction / Amateur film
1953
National Library of Scotland

Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.

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Noise and Resistance
Documentary film / Trailer
2011
DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

Dokumentarfilm über die zeitgenössische Punk-Musik-Szene, die sich in verschiedensten Teilen der Welt noch immer einer großen Lebendigkeit erfreut. Dabei porträtiert der Film Menschen, für d...

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Images
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BAGHDAD, BABYLON AND BAALBEC [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA (further episode) (?) [related]

Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.

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MESOPOTAMIA - BAGHDAD AND RIVER SCENES [Main]
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse-drawn fire-engine leaves for a (staged ?) emergency. On the river there ar...

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State and Main
Other title(s):
- Séquences et conséquences
- State & Main
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FATHER AND LATHER [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- [FILM TAGS] [Allocated Series]

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...

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CAMELS AND JAFFA [Main]
Imperial War Museums

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...

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PIGEONS AND SEAPLANES [Main]
Imperial War Museums

A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...

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DOUAI AND LILLE [Main]
Imperial War Museums

I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...

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HORSE SHOW AND SPORTS [Main]
Imperial War Museums

I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...

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Texts
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WOOLWICH ARSENAL AND ITS WORKERS [Main]
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) The arsenal entrance in Beresford Square, with the internal train taking the workers to various departments. Women and boys in the Tailors' Shop make gloves, felt "buttons" for 15-inch shells...

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CANADIAN JOURNALISTS AT BRAMSHOT AND WITLEY [Main]
Imperial War Museums

The divisional commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, shows the journalists around the training area. (Very broken film, extremely hard to follow.) The men are engaged in various kinds of training:...

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NURSE CAVELL'S GRAVE AND MEMORIAL [Main]
Imperial War Museums

Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...

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the YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- [the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]

Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...

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27TH AND 30TH DIVISIONS [Main]
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) King George V and General Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding Second Army to which the two divisions were attached, are greeted by 30th (Old Hickory) Division commander, Major-General Edward M Lew...

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the HORSE AND THE AEROPLANE [Main]
Imperial War Museums

The film is compiled, rather than edited, by joining together four original films. (Reel 1) First IWM 31 INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT and IWM 2 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST. (Reel 2) F...

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COLONEL SAMSON AND DH4 [Main]
Imperial War Museums

Colonel Samson is not clearly visible in the film. The DH4, fitted with floats and no wheels, taxies through the water behind a Felixstowe flying boat, which takes off ahead of it. The DH4 then thrott...

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[ALLOWAY AYR MIX VIEWS]
National Library of Scotland
Other title(s):
- [ALLOWAY AYR MIX VIEWS]

Amateur footage of the main sights and buildings in the centre of Ayr, and shots of Alloway.

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