director: David Robinson

 
Among national contributions, Scottish Screen and the Scottish Film Archive offer a five-programme presentation showing how Scotland was represented and represented itself in the silent cinema. Contrasting highlights include Mary Pickford in Maurice Tourneur's 1917 Hollywood-eye view of Scotland, The Pride of the Clan, and a series of films by Scottish cinema managers in their twenties, recording their own audiences, the humble people to whom they purveyed the movies' glamour.

Print sources: Scottish Film & Television Archive, unless otherwise stated.

Programme 1
Showmen and entrepreneurs

LORD AND LADY OVERTOUN'S VISIT TO MACINDOE'S SHOW (UK, film made before 1908)

(GORDON HIGHLANDERS) (Attributed Walker's Cinematograph , UK 1899)

[ST BOSWELLS PROCESSION] (Gaylor, UK c.1900)

(SELKIRK COMMON RIDING) (Gaylor, UK c.1900)

(LAUNCH AT DENNY'S - "SHAMROCK III") (UK 1903)

A GLIMPSE OF THE CAMPERDOWN WORKS TWENTY YEARS AGO (Noble, UK 1932. Film made 1912)

GLASGOW'S YESTERDAYS (UK, extract 1913)

[GREAT WESTERN ROAD] extract (Hart, UK 1915)

(GREAT WESTERN ROAD 1922) extract (Hart, UK 1922)

SCOTTISH MOVING PICTURE NEWS NO 32 (Green's Film Service, UK 1918)

LETTA'S HIGH CLASS ENTERTAINERS (UK 1923)

DUNDEE POLICE SPORTS ( C F Partoon, UK 1921)

[SCOTTISH CUP TIES] (Green's Film Service, UK c. 1921)

(CONSTRUCTION OF THE RITZ CINEMA, EDINBURGH 1929) (James S. Nairn, UK Released 1930)

(VOTE FOR HARRY KEMP) (UK 1922) HARRY KEMP'S "SCOTCH BROTH" ENTERTAINERS (UK c.1925)

(GOODNIGHT FROM HARRY KEMP) (UK c.1933)

Programme 2

MACNAB'S VISIT TO LONDON (Alpha Trading Co, UK 1905); dir: Arthur Melbourne Cooper; cast: Arthur Cooper. National Film, Television and Video Archive, London

AULD ROBIN GRAY (Vitagraph, US 1910); dir.: Larry Trimble; cast: Florence Turner, Maurice Costello. National Film, Television and Video Archive

I LOVE A LASSIE (Harry Lauder Productions, UK ca 1920); Cast Harry Lauder, Effie Vallance. National Film, Television and Video Archive

SADNESS AND GLADNESS (UK 1928)

OUT FOR VALUE (Jay's Film Service, UK 1931)

Programme 3

PAISLEY CHILDREN'S HAPPY HUNTING GROUND (Jay, UK 1929)

PRIDE OF THE CLAN (Artcraft., US, 1917 ); dir.: Maurice Tourneur; cast: Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cooke. Cineteca del Friuli

Programme 4

EXCURSION TO WEMBLEY (UK 1924)

ST KILDA, BRITAIN'S LONELIEST ISLE (Topical Productions, UK c.1928)

YOUNG LOCHINVAR (Stoll, UK 1923); dir.: W.P. Kellino; cast Owen Nares, Gladys Jennings. National Film, Television and Video Archive.

Programme 5

LOCHGELLY OLD AGE PENSIONERS DRIVE TO THE CROOK O' DEVON (UK 1928)

ANNIE LAURIE ( MGM, USA 1927); dir.: John S. Robertson; cast Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale, Joseph Striker, Hobart Bosworth. Library of Congress