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