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.
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
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.