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.
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
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...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
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...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.