A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
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 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...
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...
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.
A record of the renovation work on the Bellhaven cafe, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, between 1948 to 1955; shows the work of masons, joiners, glaziers and the Cocozza family on the new Cafe, and the interest o...
A documentary, narrated and directed by Sean Connery, on the turbulent industrial relations of the workforce of Fairfield's shipyard on the Clyde during the mid 1960s.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
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...
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
Genazzano, paese del Lazio che sorge alle pendici dei monti Prenestini, ebbe il suo momento di maggior splendore nel Medioevo grazie alla famiglia Colonna e in particolare a Oddone Colonna, che ...
Sulle colline di Sutri (Viterbo), in un ex monastero, sorge un luogo che si chiama “Sapientia”. Qui vive la comunità degli Ergoniani, nata nel 1936 attorno alla figura dell’inventore e me...
Un paesino della Puglia tormentato dalla siccità rinasce grazie al Fondo lire e al Piano Marshall. Il film si apre su un paesaggio arido e sassoso, con sparute pecore alla ricerca di qualche ci...
A divorced man (Giorgos Ninios) satisfies his sexual needs by touching strange women using public transport. His life is chaotic, but he always manages to get out of difficult situations. Two incident...
A man (Vasilis Diamantopoulos) takes in a woman (Mirka Kalatzopoulou) who has left her husband because she loves another man (Kostas Karras). Her benefactor not only reunites her with her lover but al...
A flying circus visited Uppsala, Sweden. Car race on Käpylä trotting track in Helsinki. Inauguration of a college for tuberculous war veterans in Liperi. Velomobile race on the Eläintarha racetrack...
Farming in Lapland: Muddusjärvi, Inari. Reconstructing Lapland. Football match: Finland v. Ireland. Mr Paulig, Finnish coffee tycoon, returns to his home country. Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) in Helsi...
President Kekkonen in Lapland. President Kekkonen travels to Iceland. Sir Tito Winyi, King of Uganda, visits Finland. Mr Karam buys square timber for Egypt in Finland. Passenger liner Arcadia in Helsi...