0:00:03 > 0:00:06For over 100 years, the people of Scotland have been filming...
0:00:07 > 0:00:08..themselves.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13- It takes you right back.- It does, actually. It's lovely.- Crumbs.
0:00:13 > 0:00:14- A lot of good memories.- Oh, yeah.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20- Goodness.- Wonderful. It's a little bit of magic.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Across generations, home movies have recorded
0:00:24 > 0:00:27the ordinary as well as the great moments of life.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34From our first steps... to our furthest travels.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Today, we take for granted the ability to
0:00:37 > 0:00:41record our lives on tiny digital cameras and mobile phones.
0:00:42 > 0:00:47But in this programme, we look back to the golden age of home movies,
0:00:47 > 0:00:53shot on cine film by our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56- Wow.- Wow.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00I don't remember ever seeing this before.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Unearthed from attics and cupboards across the country,
0:01:06 > 0:01:12home movies from the 1920s to the 1980s reveal an alternative,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14more intimate history of Scotland.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27# Memories
0:01:27 > 0:01:32# Memories
0:01:32 > 0:01:39# Dreams of love so true... #
0:01:53 > 0:01:58This is the study. This is where I do all my filming and editing.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02In Edinburgh, 90-year-old Norman Speirs
0:02:02 > 0:02:04helps people to rediscover
0:02:04 > 0:02:08their memories by transferring old cine films to DVD.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11HE MUTTERS TO HIMSELF
0:02:19 > 0:02:25People have found film in the attic made by grandparents or uncles
0:02:25 > 0:02:28and they say they can't show it any more.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32And I've got various projectors of different sizes.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36It usually falls to me to try and do something with it.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38It does give them pleasure,
0:02:38 > 0:02:40being able to see films that sometimes
0:02:40 > 0:02:43they haven't seen for 50 years or more.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Mostly it's been family films.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53We have had some people who have been very pleased with the work
0:02:53 > 0:02:56because of the memories it evokes from being there.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02You get the sense, of a sort, of different families,
0:03:02 > 0:03:07different periods. 1950s, 1970s...
0:03:07 > 0:03:11You get the children on the beach, running into the water.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14They all want to jump over the waves as they come in
0:03:14 > 0:03:17and they all have fond memories of it.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23# It's so important to make someone happy
0:03:23 > 0:03:27# Make just one someone happy
0:03:27 > 0:03:34# Make just one heart the heart you sing to
0:03:34 > 0:03:39# One smile that cheers you
0:03:39 > 0:03:43# One face that lights when it nears you
0:03:43 > 0:03:51# One girl you're... You're everything to... #
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Whilst photographs capture individual moments,
0:03:54 > 0:03:58it's these films of family and friends doing things together
0:03:58 > 0:04:00that most movingly evoke our memories.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04They show us how much our lives have changed.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06And how much has stayed the same.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Home movies and the treasures they hold date back
0:04:12 > 0:04:14to before Norman was even born.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Throughout the 20th century, advances in cinema technology
0:04:23 > 0:04:27meant that more and more people could record their lives and loves.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31By the mid-1960s, almost anyone could make a movie.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37These days, we take for granted the ability to film ourselves
0:04:37 > 0:04:40on phones and digital cameras, but there was a time
0:04:40 > 0:04:44when moving pictures seemed like magic.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59This is Glasgow's Great Western Road on a typical Sunday morning in 1914.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09But early cine cameras were hand-cranked, mechanical
0:05:09 > 0:05:11and cumbersome.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13They were also expensive -
0:05:13 > 0:05:16too expensive for all but the most wealthy.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31The Isle of Arran belonged to my mother.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35She had this place and Easton Park in Suffolk.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37But I only knew this one.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43This is Lady Jean Fforde and her father, the Duke of Montrose.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Her mother, Lady Mary, was a keen photographer
0:05:48 > 0:05:50and a pioneer home movie maker.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54She began recording family life around their home,
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Brodick Castle, in the mid-1920s.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00That's me with long hair.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11This is our little boat.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13And we got pulled along.
0:06:13 > 0:06:19It was really too slow to try and do that. It would capsize very easily.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Oh, I'm sure to get on there.
0:06:28 > 0:06:35We bathed from the 30th of May to the 30th of September every day.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37It's supposed to be good for us.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Father and the Queen, I think. Aunt Nelly
0:06:52 > 0:06:53and the Queen Mother. There you are.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59And indeed, the King. You know, Albert.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06And the king and queen came up for a football match in Glasgow.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08They stayed with us while they were there.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13It is amazing to think that we all wore hats every time we went
0:07:13 > 0:07:14out in the garden.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Isn't it amazing?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Highland dancing and frolicking games.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27Lady Jean was the youngest of four siblings by eight years.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30With her brothers and sisters away at boarding school,
0:07:30 > 0:07:34she spent much of her childhood alone or with her ageing nanny.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38I couldn't go to school because I'd had tuberculosis.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41That illness really put me back.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46I had to be in bed every evening by nine o'clock. I had a governess.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48I did lessons outside if it was sunny.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53I really very seldom had anyone to play with. So it was lonely.
0:07:55 > 0:08:00One learned to occupy oneself because mother's great saying,
0:08:00 > 0:08:02if you said you were bored,
0:08:02 > 0:08:06was that boredom is a sign of lack of intelligence.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10So it didn't really take very long to get something to do.
0:08:10 > 0:08:19# I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair
0:08:19 > 0:08:27# Born like a vapour on the summer air... #
0:08:30 > 0:08:35I was born 94 years ago. 1920.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43I'm glad to have seen the great British Empire -
0:08:43 > 0:08:46the greatest since the days of the Romans.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48And we won't ever see the like again.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS
0:09:07 > 0:09:11The British Empire of Lady Jean's childhood was at its peak,
0:09:11 > 0:09:14ruling over one fifth of the world's population
0:09:14 > 0:09:16and almost a quarter of its landmass.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21It was a great time to be part of the aristocracy.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Eager to leave behind the horrors of World War I, Britain was
0:09:26 > 0:09:30embracing modernity in art and design, experimenting with
0:09:30 > 0:09:35technology, and dancing to the new and exciting jazz music.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43But the vast majority of the country still didn't even have electric light.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47They certainly couldn't indulge in the expensive hobby of making home movies.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Unless, that was, they ran a camera shop.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Here we go. July 1926. And there's me.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04My father had a photographic shop at that time.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06It was a family business.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And he used cameras that there
0:10:09 > 0:10:12may have been a problem with, and he would take the cameras home,
0:10:12 > 0:10:16shoot some film on them just to check whether they worked or not.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20And that was where the early family film came from.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25That covered the early black and white stuff
0:10:25 > 0:10:31which was taken in Aberdeen, when I was just a nipper.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Alan's father's home movies give a rare insight into
0:10:42 > 0:10:45the life of an Aberdonian family in the '20s.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54The fashions of the time were something else.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01Beehive hats for ladies, and long dresses. White stockings.
0:11:05 > 0:11:10I've got what looks like a little dress on. Hm!
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Let's say no more about that.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18Oh!
0:11:22 > 0:11:24There's my father. My goodness.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26And a silhouette of my mother.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29And a little pirouette in the road. Hee-hee!
0:11:32 > 0:11:36I wish I could remember more, but my memory is through the film.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40I certainly don't remember any of that.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Aw, Bonzer the dog.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Goodness gracious. He was a lovely dog.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Hey-ho, where did that come from?
0:11:56 > 0:11:57Yeah.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00The things you remember...
0:12:05 > 0:12:08This is what a lot of the original film was shot with.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16This is a camera called the Cine-Kodak Special.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18It's quite heavy.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23It was bought new and used by my dad's company.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27And I can't tell you how many thousand feet of film it's shot,
0:12:27 > 0:12:30that it's done in its lifetime. And it still runs like a clock.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32CAMERA WHIRS
0:12:32 > 0:12:36But, oh, this is a good old friend and I wouldn't part with it.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38It's lovely.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Throughout the '20s and '30s,
0:12:44 > 0:12:49attempts were made to bring colour to motion pictures.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52This is a rare example of a complicated process
0:12:52 > 0:12:55called Dufaycolor, which failed to catch on.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Then, in the mid-1930s, Kodachrome was launched
0:13:05 > 0:13:07to instant and commercial success.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Whilst the majority of feature films were still
0:13:20 > 0:13:23being released in black and white, it was now possible
0:13:23 > 0:13:26for ordinary people to capture their world in colour.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33With the arrival of colour and cheaper,
0:13:33 > 0:13:37more user-friendly cameras, the home movie market grew,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40and the tradition was passed down through the generations.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49Have a look at this one, which we haven't seen yet.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52I'm going to put it on the machine next door here.
0:13:52 > 0:13:53And then you can see it.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56When her mother died,
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Lady Jean carried on the tradition of making home movies.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03She began to record her own family life, and one of her
0:14:03 > 0:14:08favourite subjects was a little red deer calf called Cha-Cha.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11We took this one home. She lived in the house.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Watching television!
0:14:21 > 0:14:23That looks like cricket, doesn't it?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28That's Josh.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30My son, my one and only.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38I haven't seen this film for years.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Lady Jean was the last of her family to live in the ancestral home.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50The National Trust now owns Brodick Castle,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53but her films and those of her mother live on.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02I think that next generations are going to be very sad that they
0:15:02 > 0:15:06put everything on their computer or one of these telephones, and
0:15:06 > 0:15:10they don't develop them, they don't have an album, they don't keep them.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14There's going to be nothing left. So, therefore, you just...
0:15:14 > 0:15:17You know, your grandchildren are going to say,
0:15:17 > 0:15:19"I wonder what it was like?"
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Home movies capture intimate details,
0:15:25 > 0:15:29filling in gaps missed by the commercial films of the time.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Most of all, they connect us to the behaviours,
0:15:31 > 0:15:36fashions and personalities of our ancestors.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42As camera technology evolved through the 1930s,
0:15:42 > 0:15:45more and more people were capturing their lives on film.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52But in 1939, events in Europe interrupted everything
0:15:52 > 0:15:55and changed the world forever.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59AERIAL FIRE
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Throughout the Second World War, film stock,
0:16:07 > 0:16:09like everything else, was rationed.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14But rare home movie footage from the era is a record of what
0:16:14 > 0:16:18day-to-day life was like in the country's towns and villages.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21These are the films of John Prentice,
0:16:21 > 0:16:23who ran a chemist shop in Lanark.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26They show how life carried on during the war
0:16:26 > 0:16:29and how communities came together to keep up morale.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42# Goodnight, children
0:16:42 > 0:16:46# Everywhere
0:16:46 > 0:16:50# Your mummy thinks of you
0:16:50 > 0:16:54# Goodnight... #
0:16:54 > 0:16:59In their own way, these home movies also contributed to the war effort.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04During the dark nights in town and church halls, they were shown
0:17:04 > 0:17:08to brighten the mood and reinforce the spirit of togetherness.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21The end of the war saw a landslide victory for the Labour Party,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24on a promise of greater social justice,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27a National Health Service and more low-cost council housing.
0:17:29 > 0:17:34But the shadow of post-war austerity lingered well into the 1950s.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Around this time, a group of young Edinburgh school teachers
0:17:39 > 0:17:44came together to form the Norton Park group.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46They wanted to film their pupils at play.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53The films they made capture a bygone era of children playing peevers,
0:17:53 > 0:17:56peeries and boules in the back greens
0:17:56 > 0:18:00and tenement stairways of the smoke-filled Edinburgh streets.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Isa Gillon was 12 at the time.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13When we were in the playground, that would be the start of it,
0:18:13 > 0:18:17because at playtime you always played skipping or peevers.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Or you would have two balls and stoat them off the wall,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25but you always sung a wee song when you were doing that.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28And even when you were skipping, if it was the bumps, then you always
0:18:28 > 0:18:33emphasised when you did the double jump and things like that.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37You really got a lot of pleasure out of nothing, really.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42And all these songs, you could rattle them off by heart.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45We used to sit in the stair if it was pouring with rain
0:18:45 > 0:18:49and we'd all take a turn singing, because you sounded better.
0:18:49 > 0:18:50Cos it all echoed, eh?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54The neighbours never came out and said, "Get away." Must have thought we sung all right.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57# The wind, the wind, the wind blows high
0:18:57 > 0:18:59# It all comes falling from the sky... #
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Although sound on film had been made possible in the late 1920s,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06it wasn't common in home movies until the 1950s.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11In the second Norton Park film, the children's songs
0:19:11 > 0:19:13and rhymes were added to the soundtrack.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17'Isa, Cathy, Sandra
0:19:17 > 0:19:21'and Christine were all featured in The Singing Streets.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25'This is the first time they've been together in over 60 years.'
0:19:25 > 0:19:29# In and out the dusty bluebells In and out the dusty bluebells
0:19:29 > 0:19:32# In and out the dusty bluebells. I am your master! #
0:19:32 > 0:19:34# Pitter-pitter-patter on your shoulder
0:19:34 > 0:19:36# Pitter-pitter-patter on your shoulder
0:19:36 > 0:19:41# Pitter-pitter-patter on your shoulder, I am your master! #
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- Oh, there's me! - There you are. Very good.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47# I am your master
0:19:47 > 0:19:50# In and out the dusty bluebells In and out the dusty bluebells... #
0:19:50 > 0:19:52It's hard to believe that it's you, eh?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- I know. We were all very graceful. - We were all very skinny!
0:19:55 > 0:19:57THEY LAUGH
0:19:59 > 0:20:02That's me there, in the middle of the ropes with the white shoes on.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05- I thought that was me. - Is that you?- That's me.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Without much traffic, children could play freely
0:20:09 > 0:20:12and safely outside, unsupervised.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15# Ice cake, spice cake, all for tea
0:20:15 > 0:20:18# And we'll have a wedding at half past three... #
0:20:18 > 0:20:22If you seen a car then... It was very rare, then.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25It was a doctor or an undertaker.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27# The wind, the wind, the wind blows high
0:20:27 > 0:20:30# The snow comes falling from the sky
0:20:30 > 0:20:34# Margaret Thompson says she'll die for the want of the golden... #
0:20:34 > 0:20:39These songs evoke the fun and mischief of long childhood days.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43They were learned from their peers and elders,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46with a favourite theme being first loves.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53If you had a crush on a boy or something, eh?
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Then when you were playing that game you would be
0:20:55 > 0:21:00saying his initials rather than saying to your pal, "I fancy....
0:21:00 > 0:21:03"Jimmy Dillon."
0:21:04 > 0:21:08# Now it's time to show your face, show your face, show your face
0:21:08 > 0:21:10# Now it's time to show your face... #
0:21:11 > 0:21:16- I mean, you need to record it or it would get lost forever. - It would die. It would die.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I don't know about your grandchildren,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26but my grandchildren don't know any songs like that.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30- Don't know any songs like that. - They've been lost.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32You'll never see that again now.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36You'll never see how we all came together and played these games.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39And we were so healthy. It's the vitality that gets me.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43And you loved it! I mean, I never felt one bit deprived.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48- My daughter says, "Mum, how did you manage?"- You just had to!
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Everybody was the same.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53We don't know how lucky we are now, eh?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09# Bung-bung-bung-bung, bung-bung-bung-bung
0:22:09 > 0:22:11# Bung-bung-bung-bung-bung
0:22:11 > 0:22:14# Bung-bung-bung-bung, bung-bung-bung-bung
0:22:14 > 0:22:15# Bung-bung-bung-bung-bung
0:22:15 > 0:22:19# Mr Sandman, bring me a dream
0:22:19 > 0:22:20# Bung-bung-bung-bung
0:22:20 > 0:22:23# Make him the cutest that I've ever seen
0:22:23 > 0:22:25# Bung-bung-bung-bung
0:22:25 > 0:22:28# Give him two lips like roses and clover
0:22:28 > 0:22:29# Bung-bung-bung-bung
0:22:29 > 0:22:33# Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over... #
0:22:33 > 0:22:37The 1950s brought a growing sense of optimism to Scotland.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40World War II had been a long and difficult conflict.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Peace came as a huge relief,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46and people celebrated by embarking on new relationships.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51And many took to cine film to record these precious memories.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00It was around this time that 90-year-old Norman Speirs
0:23:00 > 0:23:03first became interested in cine film -
0:23:03 > 0:23:06a fascination that would last the whole of his adult life.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Well, I've always been interested in photography.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12And then, later on,
0:23:12 > 0:23:16the idea of cine crossed my mind.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18And then I was married
0:23:18 > 0:23:21and we were expecting our first baby.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25And I thought, "Now, this is an opportunity to start
0:23:25 > 0:23:28"filming in earnest."
0:23:28 > 0:23:34And I managed to get a couple of rolls of 8mm Kodachrome colour film.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39No camera. But I got the film anyway.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41And...we lost the baby.
0:23:43 > 0:23:48So the film lay unattended for a number of years in the drawer.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01For over 10 years,
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Norman has been helping other people to reconnect with their past.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10Every year, thousands of people have their films digitised
0:24:10 > 0:24:13to remember the lives they once lived.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22- Mention the tea.- Hm? - Tell them about tea.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27Well, I went out to India in 1951.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31I joined the Tea Company there.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Robert's sister was our next-door neighbour.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37So that's how I heard about Robert.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41We wrote back and forward for four and a half years.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45And then he came home
0:24:45 > 0:24:47and we got married.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52- Engaged and married within six weeks.- Six weeks, yes.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03# Again...
0:25:06 > 0:25:12# This couldn't happen again... #
0:25:12 > 0:25:17All went well. Wonderful.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Wonderful.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Somebody said, "Robert's got his arm pinned to his side."
0:25:26 > 0:25:28I think he was holding himself up.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30ROBERT LAUGHS
0:25:30 > 0:25:34I had been at a stag night the night before.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39So I wasn't fully compos mentis. I was very hungover at the time.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44# Never, never
0:25:44 > 0:25:47# Again... #
0:25:52 > 0:25:56This is one I would like you to see. And here we are.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58There, this is what you want.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05That's Robert.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06When he had hair!
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Shortly after their marriage,
0:26:09 > 0:26:13Robert took Jessie back to India to live and work on the tea plantation.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15It was just after the end of the war.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19People had all travelled abroad, we had heard all these stories.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23So it was something you just wanted to do.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41OK, it was a great adventure, but...
0:26:41 > 0:26:44at the same time, and by the same token,
0:26:44 > 0:26:48it was something that a lot of people were doing at the time.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Here's a shot here, coming up...
0:26:58 > 0:27:01The one on the left is Jessie.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Very funny!
0:27:05 > 0:27:09- Here's Jessie on the elephant. - It was all jaggy!
0:27:09 > 0:27:13I had a dress on, and my legs were sore.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16I wanted down and Robert said, "You asked to get up."
0:27:19 > 0:27:22And that's Robert pretending he's going to shoot something.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Well, I had to carry a gun up there,
0:27:26 > 0:27:30because this was really deep in the jungle.
0:27:30 > 0:27:35So we had to have a shotgun with us, just in case.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38There was quite a few leopards in that part of the world.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Robert and Jessie stayed in India for seven years.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47Their adventures, including the arrival of two children,
0:27:47 > 0:27:49are all captured in their home movies.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57It was difficult for people to imagine what it was like,
0:27:57 > 0:28:02and that was one of the reasons why Robert got a camera.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04So that when he came home,
0:28:04 > 0:28:07he could show people here what it was like.
0:28:09 > 0:28:14- These films bring back a lot of memories.- We reminisce.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23MUSIC: A Swingin' Safari by Billy Vaughn
0:28:29 > 0:28:33Home movie-making exploded in the 1950s,
0:28:33 > 0:28:36alongside a rapidly growing British economy.
0:28:36 > 0:28:37With more money to spend,
0:28:37 > 0:28:41a surplus of aeroplanes left over from the war and the relaxation
0:28:41 > 0:28:45of border controls, travelling the world had never been so easy.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51In an effort to rebuild their own economies,
0:28:51 > 0:28:54Spain and the countries of southern Europe began to consider how
0:28:54 > 0:28:56they could attract more visitors.
0:28:56 > 0:29:01So they put up hotels, and the package holiday was born.
0:29:02 > 0:29:06Naturally, people wanted to record these new cultural experiences,
0:29:06 > 0:29:09so the travelogue became a home movie favourite.
0:29:19 > 0:29:25Probably one films happy times more than sad times.
0:29:25 > 0:29:30The happy times...like holidays,
0:29:30 > 0:29:33like parties, like Christmas.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Like, the big events in life.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39And perhaps that's a good thing, in a way,
0:29:39 > 0:29:42because you then remember the best times.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48One doesn't really want to start filming funerals.
0:29:50 > 0:29:55In 1957, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the nation
0:29:55 > 0:29:57that they'd never had it so good.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01The post-war creation of the National Health Service
0:30:01 > 0:30:05and Welfare State gave a whole generation a sense of security
0:30:05 > 0:30:07and prosperity.
0:30:07 > 0:30:11The result was a sharp rise in births - a baby boom.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22After losing their first baby, Norman
0:30:22 > 0:30:25and his wife Dorothy eventually had a daughter.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30Wendy.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38All the film of the family, of my daughter,
0:30:38 > 0:30:44right from the day she was born, we copied all that onto DVDs.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48And it took 26 DVDs to cover it all.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52# Come softly, darling...
0:30:52 > 0:30:56# Come softly, darling
0:30:56 > 0:31:00# Come softly, darling...
0:31:00 > 0:31:04# Come softly, darling
0:31:04 > 0:31:08# Come softly, darling...
0:31:08 > 0:31:12# Come to me Stay
0:31:12 > 0:31:19# You're my obsession for ever and a day... #
0:31:21 > 0:31:30When I was doing the copying onto DVD, this was a condensed period.
0:31:30 > 0:31:34We did a whole thing in two or three months. And we were able to view it.
0:31:34 > 0:31:39And what was fascinating was seeing them growing up
0:31:39 > 0:31:42in the space of literally a few months.
0:31:42 > 0:31:47And I feel I've got some gems amongst it.
0:31:59 > 0:32:04I just couldn't see me existing without having...
0:32:04 > 0:32:08film or video, as Dorothy would say, to play with.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11They meant an awful lot to me.
0:32:16 > 0:32:21It's been a fascinating progress through life.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30When I'm gone... And it won't be all that far off now,
0:32:30 > 0:32:33because Dorothy and I will both be celebrating our 90th birthdays
0:32:33 > 0:32:37this year. Dorothy's version of what's going to happen is
0:32:37 > 0:32:40a large skip will be delivered to the house
0:32:40 > 0:32:42and it will all go in the skip.
0:32:44 > 0:32:48I would be horrified, but who else is going to be interested?
0:32:50 > 0:32:54Who is going to be interested in seeing it all?
0:33:02 > 0:33:06In the 1960s, revolutions in youth culture, music and fashion
0:33:06 > 0:33:09transformed the look and feel of the country.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12After all the post-war hardships, there was a sense
0:33:12 > 0:33:13that anything is possible.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19By the mid-1960s, home movie-making
0:33:19 > 0:33:23was a cultural phenomenon, with people from all walks of life
0:33:23 > 0:33:24taking up the hobby.
0:33:24 > 0:33:29# What would you do if I sang out of tune?
0:33:30 > 0:33:34# Would you stand up and walk out on me? #
0:33:36 > 0:33:40Super 8 was the new format, with a quality and texture that
0:33:40 > 0:33:43now seems forever entwined with our memories of the era.
0:33:45 > 0:33:50# Get by with a little help from my friends
0:33:50 > 0:33:54# Get by with a little help from my friends
0:33:54 > 0:33:56# I say I'm gonna get high
0:33:56 > 0:33:59# Get by with a little help from my friends
0:33:59 > 0:34:02# Oh-oh-oh, yeah... #
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Recently, Dave Broderick found his father's old cine films
0:34:11 > 0:34:13and had them transferred so he could watch them again.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16I'm not 100% sure what we're going to see, actually,
0:34:16 > 0:34:17to tell you the truth.
0:34:17 > 0:34:23Dave and his cousin Alison haven't seen these films for over 40 years.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26- Now we're in Dundee. Oh, out on the Fifey.- That's the boat?
0:34:26 > 0:34:31That's on the Fifey, the ferry that used to go across from Newport to Dundee.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33- Before the bridge was built.- Mm-hm.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39HE LAUGHS What is he like?!
0:34:44 > 0:34:45There's my mum.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52- A fag at the mouth.- Smoking! It's crazy, eh?- I know.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55Look at them singing. That's them singing.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58They're singing My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean!
0:34:58 > 0:35:01I can remember them doing that when we were wee. Look!
0:35:02 > 0:35:04What are they like?
0:35:10 > 0:35:15Dundee was a boom town in the early 1960s and employment was high.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18The arrival of new multinational companies was a boost to
0:35:18 > 0:35:20the city's more traditional industries.
0:35:22 > 0:35:25Dave's mum worked at Keiller's, the marmalade factory.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31God. Mum as a bride-to-be...
0:35:35 > 0:35:37She's getting paraded through the streets of Dundee.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41Yeah, that's what used to happen. You got dressed up and took home.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43That was the fake wedding.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47THEY LAUGH
0:35:54 > 0:35:58Look at that, my mum in her wedding dress.
0:35:58 > 0:35:59She looks dead young, eh?
0:35:59 > 0:36:05She does, doesn't she? I don't remember ever seeing this before.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08- I wonder who was in charge of the camera that day?- Aye, I don't know.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12I hope that wasn't Dad. I wouldn't have put it past him, right enough.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14THEY LAUGH
0:36:16 > 0:36:18- Look at those dresses. Wow.- Wow.
0:36:21 > 0:36:23(That's me.)
0:36:23 > 0:36:27- Is that you?- That's me!- Is that you? - Yeah. Look at that wee blue suit.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29Bless.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33There's Dad.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36She's saying, "Come on, let's get a drink."
0:36:36 > 0:36:37SHE LAUGHS
0:36:41 > 0:36:46Mum died of a complication of lung cancer.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49I was only...15.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52I remember her as being very full of life.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55She was the one who wanted to party all the time,
0:36:55 > 0:36:58for want of a better phrase. Dad brought us up.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Gave up a lot of his life for us, I suppose.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04I'm sure he would have liked to live his life out with his wife
0:37:04 > 0:37:08and retire as anybody else did. And, you know, grow old.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10But that wasn't to be.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23Dave's early childhood was spent in the soot-covered
0:37:23 > 0:37:25tenements of West Dundee.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30New opportunities in education, technology
0:37:30 > 0:37:35and housing were breaking up the formal and rigid social structures.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37According to Prime Minister Harold Wilson,
0:37:37 > 0:37:40this was the dawn of a classless society.
0:37:43 > 0:37:47That'll be me, then, with...lots of gingerness going on there.
0:37:47 > 0:37:52- Not so much now!- Red cheeks.- Yeah, bright red cheeks and gingerness.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57Very happy childhood. Lots of laughing.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13The confidence of the era filtered down to its children.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21All over Scotland, free-range kids were given space
0:38:21 > 0:38:24and time to explore the world at their own pace.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33- There you go.- There's me and Mum.
0:38:33 > 0:38:34Always a very proud mother.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38In the early 1960s,
0:38:38 > 0:38:43Ewan Jeen filmed the arrival of his daughter, Sandy.
0:38:43 > 0:38:49- First flirtation! Look who it is! Angus!- Sandy...- Oh, no.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53- And how old was I? Just months! - Not old enough, my dear.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Yuck. Ew!
0:38:55 > 0:38:57THEY LAUGH
0:38:58 > 0:39:02A few years later, Sandy was joined by her sister, Debbie.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05Their father continued filming through their idyllic childhood
0:39:05 > 0:39:07in Bearsden.
0:39:08 > 0:39:13It's quite funny looking back at us. Because we were actually quite cute.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17I just can't really believe it's you and I. As little girls.
0:39:17 > 0:39:21- Just a few years down the road. - Just a few years.- Not too many.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24There's the dog. They were great dogs.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28- We were left on beaches alone with those dogs.- That's right.
0:39:28 > 0:39:32Whilst Mum and Dad were away in the water somewhere.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35It was a great time to be a kid.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39When we look back at that, it was just magical fun
0:39:39 > 0:39:43and I just get such a tickle out of it all the time. I love it.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46I could watch it every day. It's marvellous.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48And it's a little bit of magic.
0:39:56 > 0:40:00# Have yourself a merry little Christmas... #
0:40:00 > 0:40:02- Goodness.- Wonderful.
0:40:02 > 0:40:06# Let your heart be light... #
0:40:06 > 0:40:09- Sandy, do you remember the elephants? - Oh, the elephants.- Look at that.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11- Our first powered toy.- That's right.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15I don't think these toys would go down very well now, would they?
0:40:17 > 0:40:19These are just old wind-up toys, you know?
0:40:23 > 0:40:29# Have yourself a merry little Christmas
0:40:30 > 0:40:35# Make the yuletide gay... #
0:40:35 > 0:40:40Children had never had it so good. Especially when it came to toys.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44The 1960s brought Easy-Bake ovens, Barbie dolls,
0:40:44 > 0:40:48Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Etch A Sketch and Scalextric.
0:40:48 > 0:40:54# Once again, as in olden days
0:40:54 > 0:40:57# Happy golden days... #
0:40:57 > 0:41:00Christmas morning became one of the most featured events
0:41:00 > 0:41:02in Scotland's home movies.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06# Faithful friends who were dear to us
0:41:06 > 0:41:13# Will be near to us once more... #
0:41:17 > 0:41:19THEY LAUGH
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Barry Wohlegemuth and her family found a special use for their
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Christmas home movies.
0:41:26 > 0:41:31My sister has lived in Canada for many years and you weren't able
0:41:31 > 0:41:36to come backwards and forwards because it cost so much.
0:41:36 > 0:41:41So any family celebration, my dad filmed.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46Like an early form of Skyping, the home movies were sent to Canada
0:41:46 > 0:41:49so family over there could share in the festivities.
0:41:52 > 0:41:56That must have meant such a lot to her, you know, being away.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00- That's right. And her seeing them. - That's what all the waving is about.
0:42:10 > 0:42:14What I remember is being part of a family.
0:42:16 > 0:42:20It's good to be able to look back on this, to see not just a photograph.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22You're seeing their characteristics.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24You can actually see the expressions and... Yeah.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30- Is this your 21st? - Mm-hm.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33THEY LAUGH
0:42:33 > 0:42:36There's you, Mum, with your coat on.
0:42:36 > 0:42:40- I cannot remember that much about it.- Oh, a conga!- Yeah.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42And that's you.
0:42:43 > 0:42:46# Look at them sway with it Getting so gay with it
0:42:46 > 0:42:49# Shouting "Olay!" with it, huh!
0:42:49 > 0:42:51# Papa loves mambo... #
0:42:51 > 0:42:54- They had a sit-down meal.- They had a sit-down meal followed by a conga.
0:42:57 > 0:43:02But you just didn't think of renting a venue for these things.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04# Mambo, mamba
0:43:04 > 0:43:05# Mama loves mambo
0:43:05 > 0:43:07# Mambo, mamba
0:43:07 > 0:43:10# Don't let her rumba and don't let her samba
0:43:10 > 0:43:13# Cos Papa loves a mambo tonight... #
0:43:13 > 0:43:16"Oh, phew! Glad that's over. Knackered now."
0:43:20 > 0:43:25'60s parties may have a reputation for sex, drugs and rock and roll,
0:43:25 > 0:43:27but for the average Scottish family,
0:43:27 > 0:43:30they were a much more traditional affair.
0:43:30 > 0:43:34# I'm yearning for my Hebridean island... #
0:43:34 > 0:43:36All the songs...
0:43:36 > 0:43:39- We knew all the words! We still know all the words.- Yes.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42People don't do that now. It's such a shame that they don't do that.
0:43:42 > 0:43:46Any minute now, we'll be having Tobermory Bay and Westering Home.
0:43:46 > 0:43:51- Bonnie Mary Of Argyll. - Oh, yes, that's it. Them all.
0:43:51 > 0:43:58# I long for Mull and Tobermory Bay... #
0:44:08 > 0:44:11With the arrival of smaller and easier to load cameras,
0:44:11 > 0:44:14you could now make movies anywhere you chose to go.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20Even though travelling abroad was becoming more accessible,
0:44:20 > 0:44:23for most people, holidays at home were still the norm.
0:44:40 > 0:44:44- These were the big family holidays, weren't they?- Mm-hm.- Butlins.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47See, I remember being there.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49I remember that. Being on those chutes.
0:44:53 > 0:44:57- I remember those pools in Butlins - freezing cold!- Freezing.
0:44:57 > 0:45:00- An outdoor pool in Ayr. - Yeah, why wouldn't you(?)
0:45:06 > 0:45:09Brilliant. Aunt Jessie would always be ready,
0:45:09 > 0:45:12just standing at the edge of the beach with great big towels.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14All wrapped up, scarves around their heads.
0:45:14 > 0:45:18- and they've got their coats and their collars. - Tightly gathered round...
0:45:18 > 0:45:21- As if it was winter.- And we're in our bathing costumes. Honestly.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31- We got about, didn't we?- We did.
0:45:31 > 0:45:34- Scotland was good to be in on holiday.- It certainly was.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42- The views are stunning.- Yeah.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44THEY LAUGH
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Jam the rollers in!
0:45:48 > 0:45:50As a Christmas present for her mum,
0:45:50 > 0:45:54Danielle had her father's old cine films transferred onto DVD.
0:45:54 > 0:45:58Mum Maureen remembers how her husband loved filming.
0:45:59 > 0:46:03About '70, '71, he started making these films.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05He just loved gadgets and he loved cameras.
0:46:07 > 0:46:10One of the first things Dave filmed was a camping holiday
0:46:10 > 0:46:12in the north of Scotland.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16They were joined by Maureen's sister and her family.
0:46:18 > 0:46:20That's Rab and me.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25- That's Dave.- Very short shorts! - Yes. That's me. I'm waving.
0:46:25 > 0:46:32# Summer breeze makes me feel fine... #
0:46:32 > 0:46:34Look how high they climbed!
0:46:34 > 0:46:36You can see us down there.
0:46:37 > 0:46:38In the lay-by!
0:46:40 > 0:46:43THEY LAUGH
0:46:49 > 0:46:53- Now that was '75.- '76.- '76.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55That was a really hot summer.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58Oh, there's Darren!
0:47:02 > 0:47:05If the '60s seemed to be all about optimism,
0:47:05 > 0:47:08the '70s were blighted by turmoil.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11THEY CHANT
0:47:13 > 0:47:15Strikes, inflation, power cuts
0:47:15 > 0:47:20and the conflict in Northern Ireland brought shocking daily headlines.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29But '70s home movies tell a different story.
0:47:29 > 0:47:34The memories of this much-maligned decade are often surprisingly affectionate.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39- The '70s, for us, was just... - It was bringing up your family.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41It was a really nice time.
0:47:41 > 0:47:43I just think it was quite a carefree time, then.
0:47:43 > 0:47:47I think the children had so much more freedom than they do now.
0:47:47 > 0:47:52- My boys played football every night of the week, seven nights a week. - What are my trousers like?!
0:47:52 > 0:47:56Look at the style! Purple and green. I remember my house.
0:47:56 > 0:48:01I had a cream suite and a purple carpet and a purple and brown wall.
0:48:01 > 0:48:04That was the colours then, wasn't it? Bright, psychedelic oranges.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07- That was the '70s, yeah. - That's me. What do I look like?
0:48:07 > 0:48:09You look lovely.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12# Bye-bye, baby Baby, goodbye... #
0:48:12 > 0:48:15What was my mum's waistcoat like?!
0:48:15 > 0:48:18- That was at my Auntie Jean's. That was New Year. - That's old Auntie Jan.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21That's old Auntie Jan, yeah. The New year was
0:48:21 > 0:48:24three days of partying. Cos that's what happened at our parties,
0:48:24 > 0:48:26we were all singing and dancing.
0:48:32 > 0:48:38- My dad's singing, yeah. Oh, dear. - My dad.- Yeah, standing still.
0:48:45 > 0:48:49- What is Lydia drinking? - Goodness knows. Pint's down.
0:48:49 > 0:48:52You can tell it's a good party, everyone just looks...
0:48:52 > 0:48:54- They're all having a great time.- Merry.
0:48:54 > 0:48:58- Merry, I was trying to think of the right word.- Very merry.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02I've had a few glasses of something!
0:49:02 > 0:49:05Oh, that's a Scottish New Year. In Fife.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12Oh, I've got a sore head.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14THEY LAUGH
0:49:15 > 0:49:17We used to have lots of get-togethers.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20Just all about being in the house, having a good laugh.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23- That's right.- That's what I mean, you didn't need to go to fancy places.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26You could just have it in your own house.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30It's just so nice to look back at that.
0:49:33 > 0:49:36Seeing all these people with their longer hair, eh?
0:49:41 > 0:49:44But elsewhere, there was hardship.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47Some were paying the price for radical changes made in
0:49:47 > 0:49:49the '50s and '60s.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52Housing schemes had been hastily built,
0:49:52 > 0:49:56without the amenities needed to make them thrive.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59Communities did what they could to stay together.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02Craigmillar in Edinburgh had something special.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05The Craigmillar Festival, a week of good fun,
0:50:05 > 0:50:07good laughs and good entertainment.
0:50:07 > 0:50:11A week in which the people of this south Edinburgh housing scheme
0:50:11 > 0:50:14can daub their own splashes of colour across the grey surroundings
0:50:14 > 0:50:16that their city has given them to live in.
0:50:18 > 0:50:22By the mid-1970s, Craigmillar was putting on one of the largest
0:50:22 > 0:50:24community festivals in the world.
0:50:24 > 0:50:27Thousands of local people came together to produce their own
0:50:27 > 0:50:29theatre, art and music.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32They also made movies.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47That's them running through the streets of Greendykes.
0:50:47 > 0:50:50And that's the high flats in the background.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54You can tell it was the '70s. Oh, my God, the fashions.
0:50:54 > 0:50:58We didn't care back then. You just wore anything.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00And you can tell it in this movie!
0:51:00 > 0:51:04Johnni Stanton was a youth worker for the festival throughout
0:51:04 > 0:51:05the '70s. A few years ago,
0:51:05 > 0:51:08he found this film rusting away in the cellar.
0:51:10 > 0:51:13Loosely based on the popular Oor Wullie comic strip,
0:51:13 > 0:51:16it was made by the children of the Craigmillar playschemes.
0:51:17 > 0:51:20This is Lismore School they're playing at, I think.
0:51:20 > 0:51:23Playing with guiders.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26Guiders is what other people called carties.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28You would go up to the local dump.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31It was all scrap. You pinch what you can.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33You got these pram wheels.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36You made the crossbars and then a piece to sit on. And the rope.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40The rope breaks, because your feet did that.
0:51:40 > 0:51:43Somebody always pushed the back and it was great
0:51:43 > 0:51:46when you could get up to the Castlebrae because it was a hill.
0:51:53 > 0:51:57We had thousands of kids in the area at that time. Thousands.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59What were they to do? Where were to go?
0:51:59 > 0:52:03Craigmillar was an area of low expectation.
0:52:03 > 0:52:05Of a depressed economy.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07Big families.
0:52:07 > 0:52:12The drugs took hold in the '70s and then it got worse when there were
0:52:12 > 0:52:14harder drugs coming into the area in the '80s.
0:52:16 > 0:52:19A lot of the kids I knew back then in the '70s are dead now.
0:52:21 > 0:52:25Basically, it wasted a whole generation of kids in the '80s.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27It was a tragic, tragic thing.
0:52:28 > 0:52:32But for Johnni and many other young people from the area,
0:52:32 > 0:52:34the festival was inspirational.
0:52:34 > 0:52:38I couldn't get a job, but what I did have was a community that
0:52:38 > 0:52:41I cared about and seemed to care about me.
0:52:41 > 0:52:42It was my saving grace.
0:52:45 > 0:52:49The '70s was...oh, a magical time.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51I was happy.
0:52:51 > 0:52:54Maybe that's all you really need in the long run. You know, to be happy.
0:52:54 > 0:52:57To have those moments you can look back on.
0:52:58 > 0:53:02Home movies are all about preserving happy memories.
0:53:02 > 0:53:05- It takes you right back. - It does, actually. It's lovely.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07- A lot of good memories.- Yeah.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10I must have had a vodka and orange there. Or two.
0:53:10 > 0:53:13Yeah, that's obviously Dave taking the cine!
0:53:13 > 0:53:15THEY LAUGH Cleavage!
0:53:15 > 0:53:16That was then.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21It's nice to look back and see that once upon a time we were young.
0:53:21 > 0:53:24And the kids can see that. Because I think sometimes they look at you
0:53:24 > 0:53:26and think this was how you were born.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29THEY LAUGH
0:53:29 > 0:53:31Oh, dear!
0:53:31 > 0:53:32I wonder what you were singing there.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34It could have been Country Road.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36No, it's not a Country Road song,
0:53:36 > 0:53:39because you usually swing about when you're singing that.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41THEY LAUGH
0:53:41 > 0:53:45It's a slow one. It must be a love song. What would it be?
0:53:45 > 0:53:47- You know that one, Dreaming? - Oh, aye.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49# Dre-e-e-e-eam... # That one?
0:53:49 > 0:53:51# Dream, dream, dream
0:53:51 > 0:53:53# Dream
0:53:53 > 0:53:57# Dream, dream, dream... #
0:53:57 > 0:54:00Maureen met her husband Dave when she was 20.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02He moved into the house next door.
0:54:04 > 0:54:09- Dave and I, it was just magical. - Stars in your eyes.- Definitely.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11Love at first sight. I can still remember my first kiss.
0:54:11 > 0:54:14And that sounds ridiculous at my age, but I can still remember.
0:54:14 > 0:54:17- That's cos that's how special it was. - And it was special.
0:54:17 > 0:54:22And then we got engaged and 18 months later, we got married.
0:54:22 > 0:54:24It's nice to see him when he's young like that.
0:54:24 > 0:54:28It gives me a lot of pleasure. It makes me sad sometimes.
0:54:28 > 0:54:31But I just like seeing him, especially with the kids,
0:54:31 > 0:54:32and how happy we all were.
0:54:38 > 0:54:4115 years ago, Dave fell seriously ill with lung cancer.
0:54:43 > 0:54:47I said to him one day, "Why you?" You know, he was such a good person.
0:54:47 > 0:54:48SHE SIGHS
0:54:50 > 0:54:55He said, "Why not?" Made his peace with his maker. That was him.
0:54:55 > 0:54:57He was ready. Unfortunately, I wasn't.
0:54:57 > 0:55:01Never went back to the church after it. Not for a year.
0:55:01 > 0:55:06- And a bit. It still gets me after all that time.- Very hard.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09- It is, yeah.- It's horrible.- Yeah.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13There's nobody else can take Dave's place.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15And you've just got to get on with it.
0:55:17 > 0:55:22Being able to look at these, it brings back all the memories,
0:55:22 > 0:55:23all the happy times.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26So I can look at it and I could cry and I could laugh at the same time.
0:55:26 > 0:55:31- Dad's so young and vibrant. - I know. It's great, isn't it?
0:55:31 > 0:55:35- It gives you a lift. - It certainly gives you a lift.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37It's just lovely to see us as a young couple.
0:55:39 > 0:55:43Great films and great memories, so it's just...it's nice.
0:55:43 > 0:55:47# I remember golden days... #
0:55:50 > 0:55:54Like the Bruntons, Dave Broderick found his father's old cine films
0:55:54 > 0:55:56and had them digitised as a way
0:55:56 > 0:55:59of reconnecting with his past and remembering lost loved ones.
0:55:59 > 0:56:05- Is that my dad?- It looks like him. - It is!- That's him. In his Speedos.
0:56:05 > 0:56:09Oh, Dad with the budgie smugglers on. Really!
0:56:09 > 0:56:13It's difficult to remember sometimes when you just know somebody
0:56:13 > 0:56:16as being older, that they actually had a life before you.
0:56:16 > 0:56:20- Oh, there's the trampoline! - There's the trampoline.
0:56:20 > 0:56:22Is that Gran in the background?
0:56:25 > 0:56:26HE LAUGHS
0:56:28 > 0:56:29I think as you get older,
0:56:29 > 0:56:32you realise that there's stuff you missed from your childhood.
0:56:32 > 0:56:35And you get to that age where you just...
0:56:35 > 0:56:37I'm not saying you want it back,
0:56:37 > 0:56:41but you certainly want to be able to see and acknowledge it.
0:56:41 > 0:56:45That is in this house. Or that's out the back garden of this house.
0:56:45 > 0:56:47That's the front path right there as well.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50- You don't see kids out like that playing any more.- No, you don't. No.
0:56:50 > 0:56:53- It doesn't happen. - It's really good to see them.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58I think because I'm the oldest one now, there's nobody older than me
0:56:58 > 0:57:00to remember these things with.
0:57:00 > 0:57:04Because I do live in the past quite a bit, I have to say.
0:57:04 > 0:57:08I firmly believe that 40 years ago,
0:57:08 > 0:57:12people didn't have as many problems as they have now.
0:57:12 > 0:57:16Life was simpler then. And I think I would have liked to live then.
0:57:16 > 0:57:19Like, be my mum's generation. You know what I mean?
0:57:19 > 0:57:22- They also had rickets and TB. - I suppose!
0:57:34 > 0:57:37In the 40 or so years since these films were made, the world
0:57:37 > 0:57:39has certainly moved on.
0:57:39 > 0:57:42Just as governments, fashions and other social trends have come
0:57:42 > 0:57:46and gone, so too have the methods in which we record ourselves.
0:57:47 > 0:57:48In the 1980s,
0:57:48 > 0:57:52the introduction of video heralded a revolution in home movies.
0:57:52 > 0:57:56Tape was cheap compared to film and the new camcorders could record
0:57:56 > 0:57:59an hour or two of video on one single cassette.
0:58:00 > 0:58:03Today, we take for granted the ability to film,
0:58:03 > 0:58:07edit and broadcast to the world all from a phone.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10But what we film, the things we want to remember,
0:58:10 > 0:58:12have largely stayed the same.
0:58:12 > 0:58:16MUSIC: Home by Edward Sharp And The Magnetic Zeros
0:58:16 > 0:58:19# Home is wherever I'm with you
0:58:20 > 0:58:24# Oh, home Let me come home!
0:58:25 > 0:58:28# Home is wherever I'm with you. #