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Title: WAY IT WAS, the

Reference number: 21037

Date: 1998

Production company: Grampian Television

Sound: sound

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.33 mins

Description: Items on Scottish Educational Film Association and attitudes to women

Credits: presenter Gerry Davis
taking part Janet McBain, Adam Malcolm, Mary Bain, Laura Brand

Shotlist: Adam Malcolm Films/Housewives
(00.00.00) ocs various pieces of footage The Way It Was (00.00.23) Gerry Davis intros show and guests Janet McBain and Adam Malcolm (00.01.36) brief i/v with Adam Malcolm, ex-teacher and filmmaker (00.02.24) (col) clip of Adam Malcolm's film of ploughmen near Edinburgh, 'Scottish Ploughman' 0588, 1955 (00.05.04) further discussion with Adam Malcolm (00.06.18) (b&w) clips of Edinburgh University Charities week, does not seem to be in catalogue, 1949 (00.08.44) (b&w) snd clip of 'The Catgut Film', also by Adam Malcolm, not in catalogue, 1953 (00.11.45) Adam Malcolm commentates throughout. Gerry intros Mary Bain and Laura Brand (00.13.48) brief i/v with Laura Brand, actress, and Mary Bain, farmer's daughter, about role of housewife (00.20.34) (col) snd clip from 'There's Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose' 1678, 1961 (00.22.21) i/v with Laura Brand, who featured in film, and Adam Malcolm, who made it (00.23.13) Gerry intros competition (b&w) snd clip from Pathe Newsreel of Elvis Presley leaving the US Army, 1960 (00.24.06) ecs (00.25.33)