AD VITAM
Full length video
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Title: AD VITAM
Reference number: 1711
Date: 1937
Director: filmed by Jan Read and Oscar Oeser
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 30 mins
Description:
Early photographs depict the history of St. Leonards' School for Girls and the film shows the arrival of girls for a new term by steam train, motor coach and horse-drawn cabs.
Find out more about St. Leonards School at http://www.stleonards-fife.org/ [last accessed 01/02/2018]
Credits: p. and ph. with the assistance of the staff and girls of St Leonard's School by Jan Read and Oscar Oeser
Shotlist: Credits (.11); Shots of Forth railway bridge. Steam train crosses (.39); Train arrives at St Andrews station. Girls alight, collect luggage and board motor coach and horse-drawn cabs (1.56); General views of St Andrews. Coach and cabs arrive at St Leonard's School (2.47); Captions, diagrams, photos and maps relate the history of the school using old photographs to deal with its history (30.00).