Girls of various ages in white dresses, dancing in back court.
General views Kelvingrove Park. Featuring war memorial, people, boats on lake.
View from shore of lots of people on board steamer as it pulls away.
Pageant Committee events in Kirkcaldy, 1935. Including a fancy dress Grand Jubilee cricket match (played with giant cricket bats!), a garden fete, pageant, boxing match, women's football match, runni...
A fairly disordered compilation of various amateur home-movie footage, featuring domestic scenes, a family trip to beach in summer, fishing scenes, last day of the trams in Glasgow, more fishing boats...
Newsreel footage, reporting on how women were empoyed as conductors on Glasgow trams during the war (First World War?)
Humorous amateur fiction tale covering the seven ages of man from the cradle to the grave.
A short humorous pseudo-documentary showing members of the Scottish Tourism Association attempting to hoax a bus of tourists, only to find that their work has been done for them.
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
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.