09/08/2015 Scotland's Home Movies


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For over 100 years, the people of Scotland have been filming...

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..themselves.

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-It takes you right back.

-It does, actually. It's lovely.

-Crumbs.

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-A lot of good memories.

-Oh, yeah.

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-Goodness.

-Wonderful. It's a little bit of magic.

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Across generations, home movies have recorded

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the ordinary as well as the great moments of life.

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From our first steps... to our furthest travels.

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Today, we take for granted the ability to

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record our lives on tiny digital cameras and mobile phones.

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But in this programme, we look back to the golden age of home movies,

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shot on cine film by our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.

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-Wow.

-Wow.

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I don't remember ever seeing this before.

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Unearthed from attics and cupboards across the country,

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home movies from the 1920s to the 1980s reveal an alternative,

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more intimate history of Scotland.

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# Memories

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# Memories

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# Dreams of love so true... #

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This is the study. This is where I do all my filming and editing.

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In Edinburgh, 90-year-old Norman Speirs

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helps people to rediscover

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their memories by transferring old cine films to DVD.

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HE MUTTERS TO HIMSELF

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People have found film in the attic made by grandparents or uncles

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and they say they can't show it any more.

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And I've got various projectors of different sizes.

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It usually falls to me to try and do something with it.

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It does give them pleasure,

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being able to see films that sometimes

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they haven't seen for 50 years or more.

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Mostly it's been family films.

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We have had some people who have been very pleased with the work

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because of the memories it evokes from being there.

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You get the sense, of a sort, of different families,

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different periods. 1950s, 1970s...

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You get the children on the beach, running into the water.

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They all want to jump over the waves as they come in

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and they all have fond memories of it.

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# It's so important to make someone happy

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# Make just one someone happy

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# Make just one heart the heart you sing to

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# One smile that cheers you

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# One face that lights when it nears you

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# One girl you're... You're everything to... #

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Whilst photographs capture individual moments,

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it's these films of family and friends doing things together

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that most movingly evoke our memories.

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They show us how much our lives have changed.

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And how much has stayed the same.

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Home movies and the treasures they hold date back

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to before Norman was even born.

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Throughout the 20th century, advances in cinema technology

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meant that more and more people could record their lives and loves.

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By the mid-1960s, almost anyone could make a movie.

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These days, we take for granted the ability to film ourselves

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on phones and digital cameras, but there was a time

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when moving pictures seemed like magic.

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This is Glasgow's Great Western Road on a typical Sunday morning in 1914.

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But early cine cameras were hand-cranked, mechanical

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and cumbersome.

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They were also expensive -

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too expensive for all but the most wealthy.

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The Isle of Arran belonged to my mother.

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She had this place and Easton Park in Suffolk.

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But I only knew this one.

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This is Lady Jean Fforde and her father, the Duke of Montrose.

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Her mother, Lady Mary, was a keen photographer

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and a pioneer home movie maker.

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She began recording family life around their home,

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Brodick Castle, in the mid-1920s.

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That's me with long hair.

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This is our little boat.

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And we got pulled along.

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It was really too slow to try and do that. It would capsize very easily.

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Oh, I'm sure to get on there.

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We bathed from the 30th of May to the 30th of September every day.

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It's supposed to be good for us.

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Father and the Queen, I think. Aunt Nelly

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and the Queen Mother. There you are.

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And indeed, the King. You know, Albert.

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And the king and queen came up for a football match in Glasgow.

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They stayed with us while they were there.

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It is amazing to think that we all wore hats every time we went

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out in the garden.

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Isn't it amazing?

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Highland dancing and frolicking games.

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Lady Jean was the youngest of four siblings by eight years.

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With her brothers and sisters away at boarding school,

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she spent much of her childhood alone or with her ageing nanny.

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I couldn't go to school because I'd had tuberculosis.

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That illness really put me back.

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I had to be in bed every evening by nine o'clock. I had a governess.

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I did lessons outside if it was sunny.

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I really very seldom had anyone to play with. So it was lonely.

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One learned to occupy oneself because mother's great saying,

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if you said you were bored,

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was that boredom is a sign of lack of intelligence.

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So it didn't really take very long to get something to do.

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# I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair

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# Born like a vapour on the summer air... #

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I was born 94 years ago. 1920.

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I'm glad to have seen the great British Empire -

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the greatest since the days of the Romans.

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And we won't ever see the like again.

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JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS

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The British Empire of Lady Jean's childhood was at its peak,

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ruling over one fifth of the world's population

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and almost a quarter of its landmass.

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It was a great time to be part of the aristocracy.

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Eager to leave behind the horrors of World War I, Britain was

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embracing modernity in art and design, experimenting with

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technology, and dancing to the new and exciting jazz music.

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But the vast majority of the country still didn't even have electric light.

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They certainly couldn't indulge in the expensive hobby of making home movies.

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Unless, that was, they ran a camera shop.

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Here we go. July 1926. And there's me.

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My father had a photographic shop at that time.

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It was a family business.

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And he used cameras that there

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may have been a problem with, and he would take the cameras home,

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shoot some film on them just to check whether they worked or not.

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And that was where the early family film came from.

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That covered the early black and white stuff

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which was taken in Aberdeen, when I was just a nipper.

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Alan's father's home movies give a rare insight into

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the life of an Aberdonian family in the '20s.

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The fashions of the time were something else.

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Beehive hats for ladies, and long dresses. White stockings.

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I've got what looks like a little dress on. Hm!

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Let's say no more about that.

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Oh!

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There's my father. My goodness.

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And a silhouette of my mother.

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And a little pirouette in the road. Hee-hee!

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I wish I could remember more, but my memory is through the film.

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I certainly don't remember any of that.

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Aw, Bonzer the dog.

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Goodness gracious. He was a lovely dog.

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Hey-ho, where did that come from?

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Yeah.

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The things you remember...

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This is what a lot of the original film was shot with.

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This is a camera called the Cine-Kodak Special.

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It's quite heavy.

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It was bought new and used by my dad's company.

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And I can't tell you how many thousand feet of film it's shot,

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that it's done in its lifetime. And it still runs like a clock.

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CAMERA WHIRS

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But, oh, this is a good old friend and I wouldn't part with it.

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It's lovely.

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Throughout the '20s and '30s,

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attempts were made to bring colour to motion pictures.

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This is a rare example of a complicated process

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called Dufaycolor, which failed to catch on.

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Then, in the mid-1930s, Kodachrome was launched

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to instant and commercial success.

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Whilst the majority of feature films were still

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being released in black and white, it was now possible

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for ordinary people to capture their world in colour.

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With the arrival of colour and cheaper,

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more user-friendly cameras, the home movie market grew,

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and the tradition was passed down through the generations.

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Have a look at this one, which we haven't seen yet.

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I'm going to put it on the machine next door here.

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And then you can see it.

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When her mother died,

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Lady Jean carried on the tradition of making home movies.

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She began to record her own family life, and one of her

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favourite subjects was a little red deer calf called Cha-Cha.

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We took this one home. She lived in the house.

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Watching television!

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That looks like cricket, doesn't it?

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That's Josh.

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My son, my one and only.

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I haven't seen this film for years.

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Lady Jean was the last of her family to live in the ancestral home.

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The National Trust now owns Brodick Castle,

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but her films and those of her mother live on.

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I think that next generations are going to be very sad that they

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put everything on their computer or one of these telephones, and

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they don't develop them, they don't have an album, they don't keep them.

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There's going to be nothing left. So, therefore, you just...

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You know, your grandchildren are going to say,

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"I wonder what it was like?"

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Home movies capture intimate details,

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filling in gaps missed by the commercial films of the time.

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Most of all, they connect us to the behaviours,

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fashions and personalities of our ancestors.

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As camera technology evolved through the 1930s,

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more and more people were capturing their lives on film.

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But in 1939, events in Europe interrupted everything

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and changed the world forever.

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AERIAL FIRE

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Throughout the Second World War, film stock,

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like everything else, was rationed.

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But rare home movie footage from the era is a record of what

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day-to-day life was like in the country's towns and villages.

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These are the films of John Prentice,

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who ran a chemist shop in Lanark.

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They show how life carried on during the war

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and how communities came together to keep up morale.

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# Goodnight, children

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# Everywhere

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# Your mummy thinks of you

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# Goodnight... #

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In their own way, these home movies also contributed to the war effort.

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During the dark nights in town and church halls, they were shown

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to brighten the mood and reinforce the spirit of togetherness.

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The end of the war saw a landslide victory for the Labour Party,

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on a promise of greater social justice,

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a National Health Service and more low-cost council housing.

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But the shadow of post-war austerity lingered well into the 1950s.

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Around this time, a group of young Edinburgh school teachers

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came together to form the Norton Park group.

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They wanted to film their pupils at play.

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The films they made capture a bygone era of children playing peevers,

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peeries and boules in the back greens

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and tenement stairways of the smoke-filled Edinburgh streets.

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Isa Gillon was 12 at the time.

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When we were in the playground, that would be the start of it,

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because at playtime you always played skipping or peevers.

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Or you would have two balls and stoat them off the wall,

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but you always sung a wee song when you were doing that.

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And even when you were skipping, if it was the bumps, then you always

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emphasised when you did the double jump and things like that.

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You really got a lot of pleasure out of nothing, really.

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And all these songs, you could rattle them off by heart.

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We used to sit in the stair if it was pouring with rain

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and we'd all take a turn singing, because you sounded better.

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Cos it all echoed, eh?

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The neighbours never came out and said, "Get away." Must have thought we sung all right.

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# The wind, the wind, the wind blows high

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# It all comes falling from the sky... #

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Although sound on film had been made possible in the late 1920s,

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it wasn't common in home movies until the 1950s.

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In the second Norton Park film, the children's songs

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and rhymes were added to the soundtrack.

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'Isa, Cathy, Sandra

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'and Christine were all featured in The Singing Streets.

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'This is the first time they've been together in over 60 years.'

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# In and out the dusty bluebells In and out the dusty bluebells

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# In and out the dusty bluebells. I am your master! #

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# Pitter-pitter-patter on your shoulder

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# Pitter-pitter-patter on your shoulder

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# Pitter-pitter-patter on your shoulder, I am your master! #

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-Oh, there's me!

-There you are. Very good.

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# I am your master

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# In and out the dusty bluebells In and out the dusty bluebells... #

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It's hard to believe that it's you, eh?

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-I know. We were all very graceful.

-We were all very skinny!

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THEY LAUGH

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That's me there, in the middle of the ropes with the white shoes on.

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-I thought that was me.

-Is that you?

-That's me.

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Without much traffic, children could play freely

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and safely outside, unsupervised.

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# Ice cake, spice cake, all for tea

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# And we'll have a wedding at half past three... #

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If you seen a car then... It was very rare, then.

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It was a doctor or an undertaker.

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# The wind, the wind, the wind blows high

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# The snow comes falling from the sky

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# Margaret Thompson says she'll die for the want of the golden... #

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These songs evoke the fun and mischief of long childhood days.

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They were learned from their peers and elders,

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with a favourite theme being first loves.

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If you had a crush on a boy or something, eh?

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Then when you were playing that game you would be

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saying his initials rather than saying to your pal, "I fancy....

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"Jimmy Dillon."

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# Now it's time to show your face, show your face, show your face

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# Now it's time to show your face... #

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-I mean, you need to record it or it would get lost forever.

-It would die. It would die.

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I don't know about your grandchildren,

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but my grandchildren don't know any songs like that.

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-Don't know any songs like that.

-They've been lost.

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You'll never see that again now.

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You'll never see how we all came together and played these games.

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And we were so healthy. It's the vitality that gets me.

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And you loved it! I mean, I never felt one bit deprived.

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-My daughter says, "Mum, how did you manage?"

-You just had to!

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Everybody was the same.

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We don't know how lucky we are now, eh?

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# Bung-bung-bung-bung, bung-bung-bung-bung

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# Bung-bung-bung-bung-bung

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# Bung-bung-bung-bung, bung-bung-bung-bung

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# Bung-bung-bung-bung-bung

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# Mr Sandman, bring me a dream

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# Bung-bung-bung-bung

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# Make him the cutest that I've ever seen

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# Bung-bung-bung-bung

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# Give him two lips like roses and clover

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# Bung-bung-bung-bung

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# Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over... #

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The 1950s brought a growing sense of optimism to Scotland.

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World War II had been a long and difficult conflict.

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Peace came as a huge relief,

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and people celebrated by embarking on new relationships.

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And many took to cine film to record these precious memories.

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It was around this time that 90-year-old Norman Speirs

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first became interested in cine film -

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a fascination that would last the whole of his adult life.

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Well, I've always been interested in photography.

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And then, later on,

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the idea of cine crossed my mind.

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And then I was married

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and we were expecting our first baby.

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And I thought, "Now, this is an opportunity to start

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"filming in earnest."

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And I managed to get a couple of rolls of 8mm Kodachrome colour film.

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No camera. But I got the film anyway.

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And...we lost the baby.

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So the film lay unattended for a number of years in the drawer.

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For over 10 years,

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Norman has been helping other people to reconnect with their past.

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Every year, thousands of people have their films digitised

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to remember the lives they once lived.

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-Mention the tea.

-Hm?

-Tell them about tea.

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Well, I went out to India in 1951.

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I joined the Tea Company there.

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Robert's sister was our next-door neighbour.

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So that's how I heard about Robert.

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We wrote back and forward for four and a half years.

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And then he came home

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and we got married.

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-Engaged and married within six weeks.

-Six weeks, yes.

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# Again...

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# This couldn't happen again... #

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All went well. Wonderful.

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Wonderful.

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Somebody said, "Robert's got his arm pinned to his side."

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I think he was holding himself up.

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ROBERT LAUGHS

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I had been at a stag night the night before.

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So I wasn't fully compos mentis. I was very hungover at the time.

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# Never, never

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# Again... #

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This is one I would like you to see. And here we are.

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There, this is what you want.

0:25:560:25:58

That's Robert.

0:26:030:26:05

When he had hair!

0:26:050:26:06

Shortly after their marriage,

0:26:070:26:09

Robert took Jessie back to India to live and work on the tea plantation.

0:26:090:26:13

It was just after the end of the war.

0:26:130:26:15

People had all travelled abroad, we had heard all these stories.

0:26:150:26:19

So it was something you just wanted to do.

0:26:190:26:23

OK, it was a great adventure, but...

0:26:390:26:41

at the same time, and by the same token,

0:26:410:26:44

it was something that a lot of people were doing at the time.

0:26:440:26:48

Here's a shot here, coming up...

0:26:540:26:56

The one on the left is Jessie.

0:26:580:27:01

Very funny!

0:27:010:27:03

-Here's Jessie on the elephant.

-It was all jaggy!

0:27:050:27:09

I had a dress on, and my legs were sore.

0:27:090:27:13

I wanted down and Robert said, "You asked to get up."

0:27:130:27:16

And that's Robert pretending he's going to shoot something.

0:27:190:27:22

Well, I had to carry a gun up there,

0:27:240:27:26

because this was really deep in the jungle.

0:27:260:27:30

So we had to have a shotgun with us, just in case.

0:27:300:27:35

There was quite a few leopards in that part of the world.

0:27:350:27:38

Robert and Jessie stayed in India for seven years.

0:27:400:27:43

Their adventures, including the arrival of two children,

0:27:430:27:47

are all captured in their home movies.

0:27:470:27:49

It was difficult for people to imagine what it was like,

0:27:530:27:57

and that was one of the reasons why Robert got a camera.

0:27:570:28:02

So that when he came home,

0:28:020:28:04

he could show people here what it was like.

0:28:040:28:07

-These films bring back a lot of memories.

-We reminisce.

0:28:090:28:14

MUSIC: A Swingin' Safari by Billy Vaughn

0:28:190:28:23

Home movie-making exploded in the 1950s,

0:28:290:28:33

alongside a rapidly growing British economy.

0:28:330:28:36

With more money to spend,

0:28:360:28:37

a surplus of aeroplanes left over from the war and the relaxation

0:28:370:28:41

of border controls, travelling the world had never been so easy.

0:28:410:28:45

In an effort to rebuild their own economies,

0:28:480:28:51

Spain and the countries of southern Europe began to consider how

0:28:510:28:54

they could attract more visitors.

0:28:540:28:56

So they put up hotels, and the package holiday was born.

0:28:560:29:01

Naturally, people wanted to record these new cultural experiences,

0:29:020:29:06

so the travelogue became a home movie favourite.

0:29:060:29:09

Probably one films happy times more than sad times.

0:29:190:29:25

The happy times...like holidays,

0:29:250:29:30

like parties, like Christmas.

0:29:300:29:33

Like, the big events in life.

0:29:350:29:37

And perhaps that's a good thing, in a way,

0:29:370:29:39

because you then remember the best times.

0:29:390:29:42

One doesn't really want to start filming funerals.

0:29:440:29:48

In 1957, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the nation

0:29:500:29:55

that they'd never had it so good.

0:29:550:29:57

The post-war creation of the National Health Service

0:29:580:30:01

and Welfare State gave a whole generation a sense of security

0:30:010:30:05

and prosperity.

0:30:050:30:07

The result was a sharp rise in births - a baby boom.

0:30:070:30:11

After losing their first baby, Norman

0:30:190:30:22

and his wife Dorothy eventually had a daughter.

0:30:220:30:25

Wendy.

0:30:280:30:30

All the film of the family, of my daughter,

0:30:340:30:38

right from the day she was born, we copied all that onto DVDs.

0:30:380:30:44

And it took 26 DVDs to cover it all.

0:30:440:30:48

# Come softly, darling...

0:30:480:30:52

# Come softly, darling

0:30:520:30:56

# Come softly, darling...

0:30:560:31:00

# Come softly, darling

0:31:000:31:04

# Come softly, darling...

0:31:040:31:08

# Come to me Stay

0:31:080:31:12

# You're my obsession for ever and a day... #

0:31:120:31:19

When I was doing the copying onto DVD, this was a condensed period.

0:31:210:31:30

We did a whole thing in two or three months. And we were able to view it.

0:31:300:31:34

And what was fascinating was seeing them growing up

0:31:340:31:39

in the space of literally a few months.

0:31:390:31:42

And I feel I've got some gems amongst it.

0:31:420:31:47

I just couldn't see me existing without having...

0:31:590:32:04

film or video, as Dorothy would say, to play with.

0:32:040:32:08

They meant an awful lot to me.

0:32:090:32:11

It's been a fascinating progress through life.

0:32:160:32:21

When I'm gone... And it won't be all that far off now,

0:32:260:32:30

because Dorothy and I will both be celebrating our 90th birthdays

0:32:300:32:33

this year. Dorothy's version of what's going to happen is

0:32:330:32:37

a large skip will be delivered to the house

0:32:370:32:40

and it will all go in the skip.

0:32:400:32:42

I would be horrified, but who else is going to be interested?

0:32:440:32:48

Who is going to be interested in seeing it all?

0:32:500:32:54

In the 1960s, revolutions in youth culture, music and fashion

0:33:020:33:06

transformed the look and feel of the country.

0:33:060:33:09

After all the post-war hardships, there was a sense

0:33:090:33:12

that anything is possible.

0:33:120:33:13

By the mid-1960s, home movie-making

0:33:170:33:19

was a cultural phenomenon, with people from all walks of life

0:33:190:33:23

taking up the hobby.

0:33:230:33:24

# What would you do if I sang out of tune?

0:33:240:33:29

# Would you stand up and walk out on me? #

0:33:300:33:34

Super 8 was the new format, with a quality and texture that

0:33:360:33:40

now seems forever entwined with our memories of the era.

0:33:400:33:43

# Get by with a little help from my friends

0:33:450:33:50

# Get by with a little help from my friends

0:33:500:33:54

# I say I'm gonna get high

0:33:540:33:56

# Get by with a little help from my friends

0:33:560:33:59

# Oh-oh-oh, yeah... #

0:33:590:34:02

Recently, Dave Broderick found his father's old cine films

0:34:080:34:11

and had them transferred so he could watch them again.

0:34:110:34:13

I'm not 100% sure what we're going to see, actually,

0:34:130:34:16

to tell you the truth.

0:34:160:34:17

Dave and his cousin Alison haven't seen these films for over 40 years.

0:34:170:34:23

-Now we're in Dundee. Oh, out on the Fifey.

-That's the boat?

0:34:230:34:26

That's on the Fifey, the ferry that used to go across from Newport to Dundee.

0:34:260:34:31

-Before the bridge was built.

-Mm-hm.

0:34:310:34:33

HE LAUGHS What is he like?!

0:34:370:34:39

There's my mum.

0:34:440:34:45

-A fag at the mouth.

-Smoking! It's crazy, eh?

-I know.

0:34:490:34:52

Look at them singing. That's them singing.

0:34:520:34:55

They're singing My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean!

0:34:550:34:58

I can remember them doing that when we were wee. Look!

0:34:580:35:01

What are they like?

0:35:020:35:04

Dundee was a boom town in the early 1960s and employment was high.

0:35:100:35:15

The arrival of new multinational companies was a boost to

0:35:150:35:18

the city's more traditional industries.

0:35:180:35:20

Dave's mum worked at Keiller's, the marmalade factory.

0:35:220:35:25

God. Mum as a bride-to-be...

0:35:280:35:31

She's getting paraded through the streets of Dundee.

0:35:350:35:37

Yeah, that's what used to happen. You got dressed up and took home.

0:35:370:35:41

That was the fake wedding.

0:35:410:35:43

THEY LAUGH

0:35:440:35:47

Look at that, my mum in her wedding dress.

0:35:540:35:58

She looks dead young, eh?

0:35:580:35:59

She does, doesn't she? I don't remember ever seeing this before.

0:35:590:36:05

-I wonder who was in charge of the camera that day?

-Aye, I don't know.

0:36:050:36:08

I hope that wasn't Dad. I wouldn't have put it past him, right enough.

0:36:080:36:12

THEY LAUGH

0:36:120:36:14

-Look at those dresses. Wow.

-Wow.

0:36:160:36:18

(That's me.)

0:36:210:36:23

-Is that you?

-That's me!

-Is that you?

-Yeah. Look at that wee blue suit.

0:36:230:36:27

Bless.

0:36:270:36:29

There's Dad.

0:36:310:36:33

She's saying, "Come on, let's get a drink."

0:36:330:36:36

SHE LAUGHS

0:36:360:36:37

Mum died of a complication of lung cancer.

0:36:410:36:46

I was only...15.

0:36:460:36:49

I remember her as being very full of life.

0:36:490:36:52

She was the one who wanted to party all the time,

0:36:520:36:55

for want of a better phrase. Dad brought us up.

0:36:550:36:58

Gave up a lot of his life for us, I suppose.

0:36:580:37:00

I'm sure he would have liked to live his life out with his wife

0:37:000:37:04

and retire as anybody else did. And, you know, grow old.

0:37:040:37:08

But that wasn't to be.

0:37:080:37:10

Dave's early childhood was spent in the soot-covered

0:37:200:37:23

tenements of West Dundee.

0:37:230:37:25

New opportunities in education, technology

0:37:270:37:30

and housing were breaking up the formal and rigid social structures.

0:37:300:37:35

According to Prime Minister Harold Wilson,

0:37:350:37:37

this was the dawn of a classless society.

0:37:370:37:40

That'll be me, then, with...lots of gingerness going on there.

0:37:430:37:47

-Not so much now!

-Red cheeks.

-Yeah, bright red cheeks and gingerness.

0:37:470:37:52

Very happy childhood. Lots of laughing.

0:37:540:37:57

The confidence of the era filtered down to its children.

0:38:100:38:13

All over Scotland, free-range kids were given space

0:38:180:38:21

and time to explore the world at their own pace.

0:38:210:38:24

-There you go.

-There's me and Mum.

0:38:300:38:33

Always a very proud mother.

0:38:330:38:34

In the early 1960s,

0:38:360:38:38

Ewan Jeen filmed the arrival of his daughter, Sandy.

0:38:380:38:43

-First flirtation! Look who it is! Angus!

-Sandy...

-Oh, no.

0:38:430:38:49

-And how old was I? Just months!

-Not old enough, my dear.

0:38:490:38:53

Yuck. Ew!

0:38:530:38:55

THEY LAUGH

0:38:550:38:57

A few years later, Sandy was joined by her sister, Debbie.

0:38:580:39:02

Their father continued filming through their idyllic childhood

0:39:020:39:05

in Bearsden.

0:39:050:39:07

It's quite funny looking back at us. Because we were actually quite cute.

0:39:080:39:13

I just can't really believe it's you and I. As little girls.

0:39:130:39:17

-Just a few years down the road.

-Just a few years.

-Not too many.

0:39:170:39:21

There's the dog. They were great dogs.

0:39:210:39:24

-We were left on beaches alone with those dogs.

-That's right.

0:39:240:39:28

Whilst Mum and Dad were away in the water somewhere.

0:39:280:39:32

It was a great time to be a kid.

0:39:330:39:35

When we look back at that, it was just magical fun

0:39:360:39:39

and I just get such a tickle out of it all the time. I love it.

0:39:390:39:43

I could watch it every day. It's marvellous.

0:39:430:39:46

And it's a little bit of magic.

0:39:460:39:48

# Have yourself a merry little Christmas... #

0:39:560:40:00

-Goodness.

-Wonderful.

0:40:000:40:02

# Let your heart be light... #

0:40:020:40:06

-Sandy, do you remember the elephants?

-Oh, the elephants.

-Look at that.

0:40:060:40:09

-Our first powered toy.

-That's right.

0:40:090:40:11

I don't think these toys would go down very well now, would they?

0:40:110:40:15

These are just old wind-up toys, you know?

0:40:170:40:19

# Have yourself a merry little Christmas

0:40:230:40:29

# Make the yuletide gay... #

0:40:300:40:35

Children had never had it so good. Especially when it came to toys.

0:40:350:40:40

The 1960s brought Easy-Bake ovens, Barbie dolls,

0:40:400:40:44

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Etch A Sketch and Scalextric.

0:40:440:40:48

# Once again, as in olden days

0:40:480:40:54

# Happy golden days... #

0:40:540:40:57

Christmas morning became one of the most featured events

0:40:570:41:00

in Scotland's home movies.

0:41:000:41:02

# Faithful friends who were dear to us

0:41:020:41:06

# Will be near to us once more... #

0:41:060:41:13

THEY LAUGH

0:41:170:41:19

Barry Wohlegemuth and her family found a special use for their

0:41:200:41:23

Christmas home movies.

0:41:230:41:25

My sister has lived in Canada for many years and you weren't able

0:41:260:41:31

to come backwards and forwards because it cost so much.

0:41:310:41:36

So any family celebration, my dad filmed.

0:41:360:41:41

Like an early form of Skyping, the home movies were sent to Canada

0:41:420:41:46

so family over there could share in the festivities.

0:41:460:41:49

That must have meant such a lot to her, you know, being away.

0:41:520:41:56

-That's right. And her seeing them.

-That's what all the waving is about.

0:41:560:42:00

What I remember is being part of a family.

0:42:100:42:14

It's good to be able to look back on this, to see not just a photograph.

0:42:160:42:20

You're seeing their characteristics.

0:42:200:42:22

You can actually see the expressions and... Yeah.

0:42:220:42:24

-Is this your 21st?

-Mm-hm.

0:42:270:42:30

THEY LAUGH

0:42:300:42:33

There's you, Mum, with your coat on.

0:42:330:42:36

-I cannot remember that much about it.

-Oh, a conga!

-Yeah.

0:42:360:42:40

And that's you.

0:42:400:42:42

# Look at them sway with it Getting so gay with it

0:42:430:42:46

# Shouting "Olay!" with it, huh!

0:42:460:42:49

# Papa loves mambo... #

0:42:490:42:51

-They had a sit-down meal.

-They had a sit-down meal followed by a conga.

0:42:510:42:54

But you just didn't think of renting a venue for these things.

0:42:570:43:02

# Mambo, mamba

0:43:020:43:04

# Mama loves mambo

0:43:040:43:05

# Mambo, mamba

0:43:050:43:07

# Don't let her rumba and don't let her samba

0:43:070:43:10

# Cos Papa loves a mambo tonight... #

0:43:100:43:13

"Oh, phew! Glad that's over. Knackered now."

0:43:130:43:16

'60s parties may have a reputation for sex, drugs and rock and roll,

0:43:200:43:25

but for the average Scottish family,

0:43:250:43:27

they were a much more traditional affair.

0:43:270:43:30

# I'm yearning for my Hebridean island... #

0:43:300:43:34

All the songs...

0:43:340:43:36

-We knew all the words! We still know all the words.

-Yes.

0:43:360:43:39

People don't do that now. It's such a shame that they don't do that.

0:43:390:43:42

Any minute now, we'll be having Tobermory Bay and Westering Home.

0:43:420:43:46

-Bonnie Mary Of Argyll.

-Oh, yes, that's it. Them all.

0:43:460:43:51

# I long for Mull and Tobermory Bay... #

0:43:510:43:58

With the arrival of smaller and easier to load cameras,

0:44:080:44:11

you could now make movies anywhere you chose to go.

0:44:110:44:14

Even though travelling abroad was becoming more accessible,

0:44:160:44:20

for most people, holidays at home were still the norm.

0:44:200:44:23

-These were the big family holidays, weren't they?

-Mm-hm.

-Butlins.

0:44:400:44:44

See, I remember being there.

0:44:450:44:47

I remember that. Being on those chutes.

0:44:470:44:49

-I remember those pools in Butlins - freezing cold!

-Freezing.

0:44:530:44:57

-An outdoor pool in Ayr.

-Yeah, why wouldn't you(?)

0:44:570:45:00

Brilliant. Aunt Jessie would always be ready,

0:45:060:45:09

just standing at the edge of the beach with great big towels.

0:45:090:45:12

All wrapped up, scarves around their heads.

0:45:120:45:14

-and they've got their coats and their collars.

-Tightly gathered round...

0:45:140:45:18

-As if it was winter.

-And we're in our bathing costumes. Honestly.

0:45:180:45:21

-We got about, didn't we?

-We did.

0:45:290:45:31

-Scotland was good to be in on holiday.

-It certainly was.

0:45:310:45:34

-The views are stunning.

-Yeah.

0:45:390:45:42

THEY LAUGH

0:45:420:45:44

Jam the rollers in!

0:45:460:45:48

As a Christmas present for her mum,

0:45:480:45:50

Danielle had her father's old cine films transferred onto DVD.

0:45:500:45:54

Mum Maureen remembers how her husband loved filming.

0:45:540:45:58

About '70, '71, he started making these films.

0:45:590:46:03

He just loved gadgets and he loved cameras.

0:46:030:46:05

One of the first things Dave filmed was a camping holiday

0:46:070:46:10

in the north of Scotland.

0:46:100:46:12

They were joined by Maureen's sister and her family.

0:46:140:46:16

That's Rab and me.

0:46:180:46:20

-That's Dave.

-Very short shorts!

-Yes. That's me. I'm waving.

0:46:210:46:25

# Summer breeze makes me feel fine... #

0:46:250:46:32

Look how high they climbed!

0:46:320:46:34

You can see us down there.

0:46:340:46:36

In the lay-by!

0:46:370:46:38

THEY LAUGH

0:46:400:46:43

-Now that was '75.

-'76.

-'76.

0:46:490:46:53

That was a really hot summer.

0:46:530:46:55

Oh, there's Darren!

0:46:550:46:58

If the '60s seemed to be all about optimism,

0:47:020:47:05

the '70s were blighted by turmoil.

0:47:050:47:08

THEY CHANT

0:47:080:47:11

Strikes, inflation, power cuts

0:47:130:47:15

and the conflict in Northern Ireland brought shocking daily headlines.

0:47:150:47:20

But '70s home movies tell a different story.

0:47:260:47:29

The memories of this much-maligned decade are often surprisingly affectionate.

0:47:290:47:34

-The '70s, for us, was just...

-It was bringing up your family.

0:47:360:47:39

It was a really nice time.

0:47:390:47:41

I just think it was quite a carefree time, then.

0:47:410:47:43

I think the children had so much more freedom than they do now.

0:47:430:47:47

-My boys played football every night of the week, seven nights a week.

-What are my trousers like?!

0:47:470:47:52

Look at the style! Purple and green. I remember my house.

0:47:520:47:56

I had a cream suite and a purple carpet and a purple and brown wall.

0:47:560:48:01

That was the colours then, wasn't it? Bright, psychedelic oranges.

0:48:010:48:04

-That was the '70s, yeah.

-That's me. What do I look like?

0:48:040:48:07

You look lovely.

0:48:070:48:09

# Bye-bye, baby Baby, goodbye... #

0:48:090:48:12

What was my mum's waistcoat like?!

0:48:120:48:15

-That was at my Auntie Jean's. That was New Year.

-That's old Auntie Jan.

0:48:150:48:18

That's old Auntie Jan, yeah. The New year was

0:48:180:48:21

three days of partying. Cos that's what happened at our parties,

0:48:210:48:24

we were all singing and dancing.

0:48:240:48:26

-My dad's singing, yeah. Oh, dear.

-My dad.

-Yeah, standing still.

0:48:320:48:38

-What is Lydia drinking?

-Goodness knows. Pint's down.

0:48:450:48:49

You can tell it's a good party, everyone just looks...

0:48:490:48:52

-They're all having a great time.

-Merry.

0:48:520:48:54

-Merry, I was trying to think of the right word.

-Very merry.

0:48:540:48:58

I've had a few glasses of something!

0:48:580:49:02

Oh, that's a Scottish New Year. In Fife.

0:49:020:49:05

Oh, I've got a sore head.

0:49:090:49:12

THEY LAUGH

0:49:120:49:14

We used to have lots of get-togethers.

0:49:150:49:17

Just all about being in the house, having a good laugh.

0:49:170:49:20

-That's right.

-That's what I mean, you didn't need to go to fancy places.

0:49:200:49:23

You could just have it in your own house.

0:49:230:49:26

It's just so nice to look back at that.

0:49:280:49:30

Seeing all these people with their longer hair, eh?

0:49:330:49:36

But elsewhere, there was hardship.

0:49:410:49:44

Some were paying the price for radical changes made in

0:49:440:49:47

the '50s and '60s.

0:49:470:49:49

Housing schemes had been hastily built,

0:49:490:49:52

without the amenities needed to make them thrive.

0:49:520:49:56

Communities did what they could to stay together.

0:49:560:49:59

Craigmillar in Edinburgh had something special.

0:49:590:50:02

The Craigmillar Festival, a week of good fun,

0:50:020:50:05

good laughs and good entertainment.

0:50:050:50:07

A week in which the people of this south Edinburgh housing scheme

0:50:070:50:11

can daub their own splashes of colour across the grey surroundings

0:50:110:50:14

that their city has given them to live in.

0:50:140:50:16

By the mid-1970s, Craigmillar was putting on one of the largest

0:50:180:50:22

community festivals in the world.

0:50:220:50:24

Thousands of local people came together to produce their own

0:50:240:50:27

theatre, art and music.

0:50:270:50:29

They also made movies.

0:50:300:50:32

That's them running through the streets of Greendykes.

0:50:440:50:47

And that's the high flats in the background.

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You can tell it was the '70s. Oh, my God, the fashions.

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We didn't care back then. You just wore anything.

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And you can tell it in this movie!

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Johnni Stanton was a youth worker for the festival throughout

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the '70s. A few years ago,

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he found this film rusting away in the cellar.

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Loosely based on the popular Oor Wullie comic strip,

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it was made by the children of the Craigmillar playschemes.

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This is Lismore School they're playing at, I think.

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Playing with guiders.

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Guiders is what other people called carties.

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You would go up to the local dump.

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It was all scrap. You pinch what you can.

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You got these pram wheels.

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You made the crossbars and then a piece to sit on. And the rope.

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The rope breaks, because your feet did that.

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Somebody always pushed the back and it was great

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when you could get up to the Castlebrae because it was a hill.

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We had thousands of kids in the area at that time. Thousands.

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What were they to do? Where were to go?

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Craigmillar was an area of low expectation.

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Of a depressed economy.

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Big families.

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The drugs took hold in the '70s and then it got worse when there were

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harder drugs coming into the area in the '80s.

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A lot of the kids I knew back then in the '70s are dead now.

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Basically, it wasted a whole generation of kids in the '80s.

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It was a tragic, tragic thing.

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But for Johnni and many other young people from the area,

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the festival was inspirational.

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I couldn't get a job, but what I did have was a community that

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I cared about and seemed to care about me.

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It was my saving grace.

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The '70s was...oh, a magical time.

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I was happy.

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Maybe that's all you really need in the long run. You know, to be happy.

0:52:510:52:54

To have those moments you can look back on.

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Home movies are all about preserving happy memories.

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-It takes you right back.

-It does, actually. It's lovely.

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-A lot of good memories.

-Yeah.

0:53:050:53:07

I must have had a vodka and orange there. Or two.

0:53:070:53:10

Yeah, that's obviously Dave taking the cine!

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THEY LAUGH Cleavage!

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That was then.

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It's nice to look back and see that once upon a time we were young.

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And the kids can see that. Because I think sometimes they look at you

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and think this was how you were born.

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THEY LAUGH

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Oh, dear!

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I wonder what you were singing there.

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It could have been Country Road.

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No, it's not a Country Road song,

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because you usually swing about when you're singing that.

0:53:360:53:39

THEY LAUGH

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It's a slow one. It must be a love song. What would it be?

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-You know that one, Dreaming?

-Oh, aye.

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# Dre-e-e-e-eam... # That one?

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# Dream, dream, dream

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# Dream

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# Dream, dream, dream... #

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Maureen met her husband Dave when she was 20.

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He moved into the house next door.

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-Dave and I, it was just magical.

-Stars in your eyes.

-Definitely.

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Love at first sight. I can still remember my first kiss.

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And that sounds ridiculous at my age, but I can still remember.

0:54:110:54:14

-That's cos that's how special it was.

-And it was special.

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And then we got engaged and 18 months later, we got married.

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It's nice to see him when he's young like that.

0:54:220:54:24

It gives me a lot of pleasure. It makes me sad sometimes.

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But I just like seeing him, especially with the kids,

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and how happy we all were.

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15 years ago, Dave fell seriously ill with lung cancer.

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I said to him one day, "Why you?" You know, he was such a good person.

0:54:430:54:47

SHE SIGHS

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He said, "Why not?" Made his peace with his maker. That was him.

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He was ready. Unfortunately, I wasn't.

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Never went back to the church after it. Not for a year.

0:54:570:55:01

-And a bit. It still gets me after all that time.

-Very hard.

0:55:010:55:06

-It is, yeah.

-It's horrible.

-Yeah.

0:55:060:55:09

There's nobody else can take Dave's place.

0:55:110:55:13

And you've just got to get on with it.

0:55:130:55:15

Being able to look at these, it brings back all the memories,

0:55:170:55:22

all the happy times.

0:55:220:55:23

So I can look at it and I could cry and I could laugh at the same time.

0:55:230:55:26

-Dad's so young and vibrant.

-I know. It's great, isn't it?

0:55:260:55:31

-It gives you a lift.

-It certainly gives you a lift.

0:55:310:55:35

It's just lovely to see us as a young couple.

0:55:350:55:37

Great films and great memories, so it's just...it's nice.

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# I remember golden days... #

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Like the Bruntons, Dave Broderick found his father's old cine films

0:55:500:55:54

and had them digitised as a way

0:55:540:55:56

of reconnecting with his past and remembering lost loved ones.

0:55:560:55:59

-Is that my dad?

-It looks like him.

-It is!

-That's him. In his Speedos.

0:55:590:56:05

Oh, Dad with the budgie smugglers on. Really!

0:56:050:56:09

It's difficult to remember sometimes when you just know somebody

0:56:090:56:13

as being older, that they actually had a life before you.

0:56:130:56:16

-Oh, there's the trampoline!

-There's the trampoline.

0:56:160:56:20

Is that Gran in the background?

0:56:200:56:22

HE LAUGHS

0:56:250:56:26

I think as you get older,

0:56:280:56:29

you realise that there's stuff you missed from your childhood.

0:56:290:56:32

And you get to that age where you just...

0:56:320:56:35

I'm not saying you want it back,

0:56:350:56:37

but you certainly want to be able to see and acknowledge it.

0:56:370:56:41

That is in this house. Or that's out the back garden of this house.

0:56:410:56:45

That's the front path right there as well.

0:56:450:56:47

-You don't see kids out like that playing any more.

-No, you don't. No.

0:56:470:56:50

-It doesn't happen.

-It's really good to see them.

0:56:500:56:53

I think because I'm the oldest one now, there's nobody older than me

0:56:550:56:58

to remember these things with.

0:56:580:57:00

Because I do live in the past quite a bit, I have to say.

0:57:000:57:04

I firmly believe that 40 years ago,

0:57:040:57:08

people didn't have as many problems as they have now.

0:57:080:57:12

Life was simpler then. And I think I would have liked to live then.

0:57:120:57:16

Like, be my mum's generation. You know what I mean?

0:57:160:57:19

-They also had rickets and TB.

-I suppose!

0:57:190:57:22

In the 40 or so years since these films were made, the world

0:57:340:57:37

has certainly moved on.

0:57:370:57:39

Just as governments, fashions and other social trends have come

0:57:390:57:42

and gone, so too have the methods in which we record ourselves.

0:57:420:57:46

In the 1980s,

0:57:470:57:48

the introduction of video heralded a revolution in home movies.

0:57:480:57:52

Tape was cheap compared to film and the new camcorders could record

0:57:520:57:56

an hour or two of video on one single cassette.

0:57:560:57:59

Today, we take for granted the ability to film,

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edit and broadcast to the world all from a phone.

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But what we film, the things we want to remember,

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have largely stayed the same.

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MUSIC: Home by Edward Sharp And The Magnetic Zeros

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# Home is wherever I'm with you

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# Oh, home Let me come home!

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# Home is wherever I'm with you. #

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