Amateur comedy about the difficulties a family have in erecting a tent. Specifically, confusion over multiple poles...
Newsreel for main events in 1939, footage plus frequent intertitles.
Chronological documentary over two years of the construction of the Royal Commonwealth pool in Edinburgh, from a greenfield site.
General views Queen visiting survivors of the 1881 'Wet Review' in 1952. Occasional flashback scene.
General views Hopetoun estate, West Lothian.
Britain's Motor Industry Jubilee 1896 - 1946, held in Edinburgh. A 'Pageant of Progress' displays a variety of cars.
Images of lighthouses with eerie, otherworldly synthesiser music - no speech in the film apart from the shipping forecast.
Religious procession at Carfin in Lanarkshire with a large gathering of onlookers.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
Crime drama about the rivalry between two men regarding a new invention and a cute girl.
Various news items about the First World War, compiled for home projection. Optimism and emphasis on international collaboration, remains preserved and the more gruesome or embarrassing war images wer...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
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 ...
French language version of a newsreel item on British troops sitting and eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness", Western Front, May 1918.
"King And President - The King of the Belgians and President Poincaré leaving Furnes after an inspection of the French Cavalry in the market square".
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".