Czechoslovakia on Parade

To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a film magazine distributed free to theaters. One 1916 series featured "Visits to American Cities." In this episode, Los Angeles is featured at the very beginning of the boom created by oil, movies and aircraft. On the occasion of its centennial in 1953, Ford donated its film to the National Archives and Records Service; this copy derives from a fine grain master printed from the Archive's preservation negative. Music by Frederick Hodges.

Tenkrát 2 – Šance pro Slovensko

Tenkrát

As travelogues go this one doesn't quite cut it – good job Lanry household bleach can!

Hitchcock went the wrong way! Head south by southwest with this travelogue from Bath to Cornwall.

Contemporary life in Plymouth in the 1960s – plus some history.

Inspired by The Seven Valleys, the film follows a solitary wayfarer who steps onto a spiritual journey of self-knowledge, guided not by destination but by transformation. Shot across the historic landscapes of Oxford, the journey unfolds as both an inner pilgrimage and a physical passage that reflects the wayfarer’s movement toward surrender, silence, and submission.

From dawn till dusk in the bohemian heart of London’s West End. This 1979 portrait of the people and places of Soho catches the neighbourhood towards the end of an era. There's some great footage inside an Italian delicatessen and of assorted street characters. It's a fascinating glimpse into this walled garden of cosmopolitan life on the cusp of the gentrification and commercial interests that have since broken its borders.

Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners.

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.

A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.

Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.

A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

Zima v Československu

The reception ebbs and flows as the unfamiliar landscape whirls by the window of a plane or train or car. Communication is delayed, fragmented, interrupted. Memories of a distant country.