My films

The 'My films' feature allows you to build a personal list of films from the Moving Image Archive catalogue. To add films to your list use the 'Add to my films' button on the full description page for each film or in your search results.

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'GARDEN PIECES' added to 'My films'.

Films with full length videos

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GARDEN PIECES [6214]

A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait described them as follows: 'Round the Garden' - right round and round again, 'Garden Fliers' - flighty cartoon and a stunner of a piano piece and 'Grove' - grave and sonorous.

Full length video available

1998

sound

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HEIL OESTERREICH [2105]

An entry for the 1938 Scottish Amateur Film Festival, the film shot in Austria, includes scenes of local festivals. [Violet Anderson was a contemporary of Norman McLaren at Glasgow School of Art].

Full length video available

Onsite only

1936

silent

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'SOLEMN OPENING OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH' thumbnail

SOLEMN OPENING OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH [2884]

The opening ceremony of St. Michael's Church Kilmarnock by the Right Reverend Joseph McGee, Bishop of Galloway. [Part of a collection of films concerning Catholic liturgical practice in Scotland prior to changes introduced by the Second Vatican Council]. [See also refs. 2879-2891].

Full length video available

1953

silent

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WITH CAR AND CAMERA THROUGH THE LAKE DISTRICT TO SOUTHERN SCOTLAND [1779]

A car journey through the Lake District, a visit to the Blacksmith's Shop Gretna Green, and on to Glasgow and the Empire Exhibition, Edinburgh and finally to Loch Lomond.

Full length video available

Onsite only

1936

silent

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