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.
Lothian's coastal industries: fishing ports at Granton and Newhaven and the docks at Leith and Bo'ness. Its mining industries: shale mining by open-cast methods and a new pit at Bo'ness. Some of th...
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.
Forth Rail Bridge, with fishing boats underneath. Motorbike racing at an established track. Scenes of family life, playing cards etc. The launch of a ship possibly the Empress of Britain. Family weddi...
Irmin Schmidt in "Can and Me" (2022)
Irmin Schmidt in "Can and Me" (2022)
Irmin Schmidt in "Can and Me" (2022)
Irmin Schmidt in "Can and Me" (2022)
Maggie Peren, Ken Duken (v.l.n.r.)
Ken Duken, Hinnerk Schönemann (v.l.n.r.)
Tamara Samonte
Ken Duken
Amateur footage of various steamers and vessels around Argyll and the Western Isles.
An amateur newreel about Bonnybridge in the early 1980s. Features children walking for the bus, the annual Scout camp at Barr Wood, clearing the banks of the Forth and Canal, and the Bonnybridge Gala...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.