Flying High: A Compilation of 1930s Aviation Film from the Scottish Screen Archive Collection

Flying High: A Compilation of 1930s Aviation Film from the Scottish Screen Archive Collection

This DVD features the newly scanned:

Milestones in the History of Highland Airways - A Re-structuring of The Inauguration of First Highland Air Service (1933-4 / 2013)
The Inauguration of the First Highland Air Service - Two dual screen versions of the old and new versions of the film (1933-4)
The Opening of Inverness Municipal Airport by His Grace the Duke of Sutherland (1933)
Sir Alan Cobham's Air Display at Inverness Aerodrome (1932)

Plus a compilation of extracts from the following films:

To Ireland by Air (1933) with Winnie Drinkwater, the first Scottish female commercial pilot
Scottish Flying Club Pageant Renfrew (1933)
Air Display, Renfrew (c.1935-9)
Cinescrapbook: Annual Air Display(c.1934) and Refueling the King's Cup (1935)
Half Past Eight Show (1936) with comedian Harry Gordon
602 City of Glasgow Squadron (1936)
Allied Airways Crash - South Ronaldsay (1937)
Around Dundee in the 1930s (1938) featuring Maia and Mercury
Scottish Airways (c.1939)

Black and white and colour
Silent and sound
Running time: 50 minutes

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Going to the Pictures: Scotland at the Cinema - The Films of the Exhibition

Going to the Pictures:  Scotland at the Cinema  - The Films of the Exhibition

This DVD features the film showreels contained in the National Library of Scotland Summer Exhibition 2012: ‘Going to the Pictures: Scotland at the Cinema’. It also acts as an introduction the film collections at the Scottish Screen Archive showcasing a variety of films made in and about Scotland over the last century. Also included is the promotional Exhibition Trailer.

Please note that for rights reasons it has not been possible to include extracts from the feature films and shorts showcased in the Exhibition.

Black-and-white and colour
Silent and sound
Running time: 55 minutes

£10.00

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Scotland in the Past: Remember When…. Entertainment

Scotland in the Past: Remember When…. Entertainment

This DVD features a variety of extracts focusing on entertainment in the past, including skating, dancing, songs, theatre and pantomime, cinema and advertising.

Black-and-white and colour
Silent and sound
Running time: 45 minutes

£10.00

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Scotland in the Past: Remember When…. Glasgow’s Landmarks

Scotland in the Past: Remember When…. Glasgow’s Landmarks

This DVD features a variety of extracts focusing on Glasgow in the past, including housing, railways, shopping, museums, parks, buildings, and a Glasgow buildings quiz from 1926.

Black-and-white and colour
Silent and sound
Running time: 45 minutes

£10.00

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The Best Day of the Year: 100 years of the Bo'ness Children's Fair

The Best Day of the Year: 100 years of the Bo'ness Children's Fair

This bumper pack DVD contains a documentary film made in 2007 looking at the history and memories of the Bo'ness Children's Fair. The documentary follows the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) history group as they research the fair, and includes archive film, interviews and footage of the 2007 fair. The film emerged out of a life-long learning history project between the WEA and the Scottish Screen Archive and was made in partnership with Falkirk Council and Pilton Video.

An additional bonus DVD contain's Louis Dickson's newly digitised Bo'ness Fair Films from 1912-1960.

Black-and-white and colour
Silent and sound
Running time: 150 minutes

£15.00

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The Home Front in Scotland – World War 2

The Home Front in Scotland – World War 2

The Home Front has proved a popular topic for project work in schools and with reminiscence work. This compilation of extracts relates to aspects of the civilian experience of the Home Front, including civil defence, war work and rationing and the Clydebank Blitz.

Black-and-white
Silent and sound
Running time: 46 minutes

£10.00

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