scottish reels

SCOTTISH
REELS
Film Listings
39 Steps, The (1935)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
A boy’s own adventure from London to
Scotland. Hitchcock’s best British film?
(Running time 87 mins)
Absolutely (1989)
(Series 1 Episode 6) (C4 tx26/06/89)
Directed by Philip Chilvers
Episode from the Pythonesque C4 comedy
sketch show created by a mostly Scottish
cast and crew.
(Running time 37mins)
Ae Fond Kiss (2004)
Directed by Ken Loach
A post 9/11 cross-cultural romance is the
focus of Ken Loach’s award-winning
feature, filmed in Glasgow.
(Running time 100 mins)
Ardrossan Sports Gala (1925)
1920s boxing action on the North Ayrshire
coast.
(Running time 3 mins)
Around the Town:
A Trip Down the Clyde (1921)
A visit to the Dumbarton Rock and
Rothesay shipyards.
(Running time 2 mins)
ARP: A Reminder for Peacetime
[c1939-40] (1939)
Directed by Frank Marshall
A household preparing for the black-out,
using petrol coupons and an air-raid
shelter.
(Running time 23 mins)
Aspects of Kirkwall:
Some Changes (1981)
Directed by Margaret Tait
Margaret Tait’s portrait of her hometown in
Orkney.
(Running time 20 mins)
Bill Douglas Trilogy [1972-78]
(1972)
Directed by Bill Douglas
Bill Douglas’s bleak, brilliant,
autobiographical trilogy of films.
(Running time 175 mins)
Blue Black Permanent (1992)
Directed by Margaret Tait
A woman (Celia Imrie) reflects on
memories of her Orcadian poet mother.
(Running time 84 mins)
Bowler and the Bunnet, The
(1967)
Crystal Spirit, The: Orwell on
Jura (tx20/12/1983) (1983)
Directed by Sean Connery
Directed by John Glenister
Sean Connery’s only film as director - a
stylish and opinionated piece on the
prospects for the Govan shipyards.
(Running time 36 mins)
Superb dramatised account of George
Orwell’s life on the remote Scottish island
where he completed ‘Nineteen EightyFour’.
(Running time 90 mins)
Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)
Directed by Philip Leacock
Drama-documentary about a Scottish
mining rescue team, based on the
Knockshinnoch disaster.
(Running time 90 mins)
Carla’s Song [Director’s Cut]
(1996)
Culloden (BBC tx15/12/1964) (1964)
Directed by Peter Watkins
Mock-documentary of the 1746 Battle of
Culloden seen from the perspective of a TV
crew.
(Running time 70 mins)
Directed by Ken Loach
Cumbernauld, Town for
Tomorrow (1970)
Director’s cut of Ken Loach’s cross-cultural
love story, tracing the relationship between
a Glaswegian bus driver and a Nicaraguan
refugee.
(Running time 106 mins)
Colourful 1970s promo for the post-war
Scottish ‘utopia’ and its infamous town
centre. [Scottish Screen Archive title]
(Running time 8 mins)
Directed by Robin Crichton
Charades (Play for Today)
(tx13/12/77) (1977)
Down to the Sea In Trucks
(1947)
Directed by Rod Graham
Directed by Ralph McCormick
The Lady of the Manor becomes
increasingly intimidated by her maid in
this female take on Harold Pinter’s ‘The
Servant.’
(Running time 55 mins)
The importance of rail transport in the
shipbuilding industry.
(Running time 18 mins)
Cheviot, the Stag and the Black,
Black Oil, The (tx06/06/1974) (1974)
Directed by John MacKenzie
A radical history of Scotland in 90 minutes.
(Running time 90 mins)
Coasts of Clyde, The (1958)
Directed by James Ritchie
Glasgow’s Riviera and Coney Island rolled
into one: British Transport Films’ nostalgic
ode to the Scottish landscape.
(Running time 20 mins)
Drifters (1929)
Directed by John Grierson
The story of the North Sea herring fisheries,
filmed at Derwick, in the Shetlands,
Lowestoft and Yarmouth.
(Running time 60 mins)
Face of Britain, The (1935)
Directed by Paul Rotha
How industrialisation has shaped and
changed our landscape.
(Running time 18 mins)
Gallivant (1996)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
Directed by Andrew Kotting
Directed by Michael Powell/Emeric
Pressburger
A tour of Britain’s coastline, with the
director’s grandmother and daughter in
tow.
(Running time 100 mins)
George Bennie Railplane
System of Transport (1930)
The construction of George Bennie’s
innovative railplane and track system near
Glasgow.
(Running time 25 mins)
Glasgow Belongs to Me (1965)
Directed by Edward McConnell
An affectionate sketch of life in a great city,
tracing the development of the ‘Glasgow
man’.
(Running time 20 mins)
Gregory’s Girl (1980)
Directed by Bill Forsyth
Affectionate Scottish high school comedy
about an amiable loser in love.
(Running time 88 mins)
Heart is Highland, The (1952)
Directed by John Taylor
Discover the life and landscapes of the
Scottish Highlands, its romantic and
dramatic past
(Running time 20 mins)
Hitchcock on Grierson
(Scottish TV tx01/01/65) (1965)
Metaphysical love story starring Wendy
Hiller, beautifully filmed in the Scottish
Hebrides.
(Running time 92 mins)
I’m British But… (1989)
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Britain beats to the sound of Bhangra and
Bangla. [Inc. Glasgow]
(Running time 30 mins)
Just A Boy’s Game (Play for
Today) (tx08/11/79) (1979)
Directed by John MacKenzie
The brutal life of Glasgow hard-man, Jake
McQuillan - from the director of ‘The Long
Good Friday’.
(Running time 75 mins)
Just Another Saturday (Play for
Today) (tx13/03/75) (1975)
Directed by John MacKenzie
One young man’s long day as participant
and bystander in the Protestant Orange day
parades of Glasgow 1975.
(Running time 75 mins)
Kill the Day (1997)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
An ex-drug addict reflects on his life in and
out of prison in Lynne Ramsay’s first
professional short.
(Running time 18 mins)
The Master of Suspense pays homage to
the Father of Documentary.
(Running time 45 mins)
Kilties are Coming, The (1951)
Hugh MacDiarmid:
No Fellow Travellers (1972)
Meet the Royal Kiltie Juniors, a Scottish
variety act who can turn their hand to
singing, dancing and comedy.
(Running time 45 mins)
Directed by Oscar Marzaroli
Made to commemorate the 80th birthday
of the late Hugh MacDiarmid, the poet
speaks about his life and work.
(Running time 26 mins)
Directed by Robert Jordan Hill
Local Hero (1983)
Directed by Bill Forsyth
Mining Review 7th Year No.12
(1954)
Residents of an idyllic Scottish coastal
village see dollar signs when a US oil
company tries to move in.
(Running time 111 mins)
Ballet dancing miners and the crowning of
the ‘Coal Queen’. [Includes item filmed at
Plean Colliery]
(Running time 10 mins)
Lockerbie: A Night
Remembered (C4 tx29/11/98)(1998)
My Name Is Joe (1998)
Directed by Michael Grigsby
Class and cultures collide in Ken Loach’s
Glasgow-set romantic drama, starring Peter
Mullan.
(Running time 101 mins)
The terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103
- killing 270 people and devastating a
community.
(Running time 60 mins)
M&K 186: Jamaica Street,
Glasgow (1901)
A breathtaking glimpse of city life on the
cusp of the Edwardian era.
(Running time 3 mins)
M&K 695-698: Boys Brigade
Inspection at Yorkhill, Glasgow
(1906)
Young recruits take part in the
organisation’s first annual pageant in
Edwardian Glasgow.
(Running time 10 mins)
M&K 90: Workforce of Scott and
Co Shipyard Greenock (1901)
Workers leaving the Greenock-based
shipbuilding firm.
(Running time 2 mins)
Machair (tx06/01/93) (1993)
Gaelic-language soap set in the Outer
Hebrides.
(Running time 25 mins)
Directed by Ken Loach
Nervous Energy (Screen Two
tx02/12/95) (1995)
Directed by Jean Stewart
A young Glaswegian with AIDS returns to
visit his family and friends, but when
things do not go as planned his lover
comes to patch things up.
(Running time 105 mins)
New Town (BBC4 tx14/02/09)(2009)
Directed by Annie Griffin
Mark Gatiss stars as a comically po-faced
architect in Annie Griffin’s satire of
Edinburgh’s exclusive quarter.
(Running time 60 mins)
Nine Dalmuir West: A Record of
the Last Weekend of the
Glasgow Trams (1962)
Directed by Kevin Brownlow
The route of the No. 9 service to Dalmuir on
the last day of the trams in Glasgow in
1962.
(Running time 13 mins)
Directed by David Lean
On the Tracks of the Wild Otter
(The World About Us, BBC2 tx25/12/82)
(1982)
New restoration of David Lean’s true-crime
drama set in Victorian Glasgow, with an
intriguingly icy Ann Todd.
(Running time 114 mins)
The lives of otters: surveillance in the
Shetland Isles.
(Running time 50 mins)
Madeleine (1949)
Directed by Hugh Miles
Orkney (Play for Today)
(tx13/05/71) (1971)
Red Ensign (1934)
Directed by James MacTaggart
Three beautiful, bleak tales from the
Orkney Islands.
(Running time 90 mins)
A visionary shipbuilder strives to rescue
the British shipping industry in Michael
Powell’s film.
(Running time 69 mins)
Orphans (1997)
Red Road (2006)
Directed by Michael Powell
Directed by Peter Mullan
Directed by Andrea Arnold
Four siblings gather for their mother’s
funeral in Glasgow in Peter Mullan’s awardwinning debut feature.
(Running time 101 mins)
Glasgow’s condemned Red Road estate is
the ominous setting for Andrea Arnold’s
gripping debut feature.
(Running time 90 mins)
Pacemakers: Ross Belch (1970)
Rugged Island: A Shetland
Lyric, The (1933)
Portrait of a shipbuilding maverick.
(Running time 14 mins)
Pakistani People in Scotland
[c1960s] (1960)
Directed by Mario Ford
News footage of the daily life of the
emerging Pakistani community in Glasgow
in the early 1960s.
(Running time 8 mins)
Portrait of Ga (1952)
Directed by Margaret Tait
My mother lives in the windy Orkney
Islands... An early film by the artist
Margaret Tait.
(Running time 4 mins)
Rab C. Nesbitt - ‘Country’
(Series 2 Episode 1 tx14/05/92)(1992)
Directed by Colin Gilbert
TV’s unlikely philosopher from Govan
takes a trip to the country.
(Running time 30 mins)
Ratcatcher (1999)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Lynne Ramsay’s first feature, a harrowing,
beautiful tale of adolescence set in 1970s
Glasgow.
(Running time 90 mins)
Directed by Jenny Brown (Gilbertson)
The story of a young couple torn between
the choice of emigration to Australia or
remaining to work their croft in Shetland.
(Running time 54 mins)
Scotch and Wry
(BBC Scotland tx06/04/79) (1979)
Directed by Gordon Menzies
A Scottish comedy sketch show that
became a national Hogmanay institution.
(Running time 30 mins)
Scotland for Fitness (1938)
Directed by Brian Salt
Scots burn the calories. [Scottish Screen
Archive title]
(Running time 12 mins)
Sean Connery’s Edinburgh
(1982)
Directed by Murray Grigor
The screen legend conducts a personal tour
of the city that shaped him.
(Running time 28 mins)
Seawards the Great Ships (1960)
Directed by Hilary Harris
Stunning, Oscar-winning documentary
celebrating Scotland’s shipping industry.
(Running time 29 mins)
Secret of the Loch, The (1934)
Directed by Milton Rosmer
‘Jurassic Park’, 1930s-style.
(Running time 73 mins)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Directed by Danny Boyle
A corpse and a case full of cash bring out
the worst in three friends in Danny Boyle’s
directorial debut.
(Running time 89 mins)
Ship, The (1990)
Directed by Bill Bryden, Derek Bailey
Powerful production of Bill Bryden’s
spectacular shipbuilding drama, filmed in
Harland & Wolff’s Shed in Govan, Glasgow.
(Running time 100 mins)
Shipyard Sally (1939)
Directed by Monty Banks
Up the Workers! Gracie Fields comes to the
rescue of unemployed shipbuilders.
(Running time 79 mins)
Something for the Boys (House
on the Hill) (tx01/08/81) (1981)
An illicit gay bar changes the life of a
nervous Scottish soldier when an American
officer sits at his table.
(Running time 42 mins)
Songs of Scotland (1963)
Directed by Laurence Henson, Edward
McConnell
Traditional songs of Scotland are sung
against a backdrop of Scottish scenery.
(Running time 15 mins)
Sorley Maclean’s Island (1974)
Directed by Douglas Eadie
The Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean recites his
poetry and discusses his work with fellow
writer Iain Crichton Smith.
(Running time 22 mins)
St. Kilda – Britain’s Loneliest
Isle (1928)
A voyage from Glasgow to St Kilda,
containing scenes of the Western Isles and
island life of the crofters on St Kilda.
[Scottish Screen Archive title]
(Running time 17 mins)
Steel Goes to Sea (1941)
Directed by John E. Lewis
“Hitler is a B******” - Shipbuilding at the
height of WWII.
(Running time 15 mins)
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Directed by Ken Loach
Ken Loach’s hard-hitting portrait of a
Scottish teenager coping with drugs and
poverty.
(Running time 106 mins)
Take the High Road (tx21/01/80)
(1980)
A business executive threatens the peace
in the community of Glendarroch.
(Running time 20 mins)
Tartans of the Scottish Clans
(1906)
Directed by G.A. Smith
Kilts but no Celts in this early film about
the great Scottish icon.
(Running time 2 mins)
Tocher, The; A Film Ballet by
Lotte Reiniger (1938)
Directed by Lotte Reiniger
The ‘wee folk’ help a man woo his true love
in Lotte Reiniger’s ‘film ballet’.
(Running time 5 mins)
Treasure Island (1935)
Children queuing for a special performance
of “Treasure Island” at the Playhouse
Cinema, Inverness.
(Running time 2 mins)
UCS1 (1971)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
Campaign film used by the Clydeside
shipyard workers.
(Running time 20 mins)
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Waverley Steps (1948)
Gently subversive Ealing comedy about
whisky smuggling in the Hebrides.
(Running time 81 mins)
Directed by John Eldridge
Wicker Man, The (1973)
Dramatised documentary about the
inhabitants of Edinburgh during the course
of a single day.
(Running time 30 mins)
Directed by Robin Hardy
West Coast Otters (Wild)
(BBC tx19/10/05) (2005)
It’s ‘mother knows best’ for a young
Scottish otter as she learns to catch fish.
(Running time 10 mins)
Pagan rites on a Scottish isle in the original
cult favourite.
(Running time 86 mins)