SALTIRE SCHOOLS PROJECT
Full length video
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Title: SALTIRE SCHOOLS PROJECT
Reference number: 3883
Date: 1965
Director: d. Douglas Gray
Sponsor: EFS [Educational Films of Scotland]
Production company: Park Film Studios Ltd.
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 18.40 mins
Description:
The Saltire Society each year invites Junior secondary or non-certificate schools to organise as school activities, projects which reflect aspects of the Scottish way of life - historical, traditional, cultural or industrial. This film provides a record of a selection of the projects entered in the Saltire Schools Award Scheme for 1965.
Paper Archive File containing correspondence and scripts.
Credits:
sc. Douglas Gray
sd. Kenneth Andrew
nar. Ian Gilmour
Shotlist: Puppet show put on by Adelphi Terrace Secondary School (Gorbals, Glasgow) pupils with opening credits superimposed (1.16) shot of the model made of Bute industries by the pupils of Rothesay Academy for the Saltire project (1.36) Perth High School pupils putting on puppet show (1.56) second year pupils at Campbeltown secondary school making butter (2.27) class from Stubswell Boys Grammar School, Dundee hiking in the Cairngorms (3.04) shots of pupils and teacher in classroom at St. Mary's Secondary School, Bo'ness. Shots of the pupils' Saltire project work concerning the history of coal mining in the area (5.12) shots of a play put on by these pupils (7.51) gvs of classroom at Douglas Water, Lanarkshire followed by talking head of teacher (8.35) Douglas Water pupils writing at typewriters, shots of these pupils visiting a local forest and coal mine (8.58) pupils partaking in a role play back in the classroom (11.05) shots of a staff meeting at Mackie Academy, Stonehaven, talking head of rector (12.07) various shots around classrooms at this school showing teachers and pupils engaged in lessons (14.02) pupils here at needlework classes making costumes (14.31) shots of play put on by these pupils (possibly Walter Scott's "Old Mortality") in the grounds of Dunnottar church (17.32) resume of previous shots of pupils in classrooms, end credits are superimposed (18.40)