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View a selection of featured videos taken from films in the collection.

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BETT HOMES [5761]

Construction work on three blocks of multi-storey flats in Trottick Dundee nears completion.

Film clip available

1967

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CHARITY WEEK PROCESSION [6880]

The procession of student floats makes its way through the streets of Edinburgh for Charity Week 1967.

Film clip available

1967

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CLEARANCE '68 [T1128]

A description of the numbers of Scots leaving to settle abroad.

Film clip available

1968

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FERGIE! [N1069]

Alex Ferguson talks about his policy on providing experience for youth players at Aberdeen F.C.

Film clip available

1986

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KIRKWALL, WICK, DOUNREAY [0805]

Street scenes in Wick in the 1960s.

Film clip available

1965

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MAKING BAGPIPES [6832]

Bagpipes are carefully handcrafted inside the Highland Bagpipe Makers on Edinburgh's Lawnmarket. This educational film records the processes involved, from turning and waxing to sewing the bag and assembling the bagpipes.

Full length video available

1967

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NOTHING'S TOO GOOD FOR YOUR CHILDREN! [0941]

The attractions of sending your children to the ABC Minors Matinee on Saturday morning - only sixpence!

Film clip available

1963

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OILS FOR NEPTUNE [4205]

The art thief throws the paintings out of a train to his accomplices waiting below, but one floats away on the river...

Film clip available

1964

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RIVER CREE, the [0850]

Members of the Scottish Country Dance Society demonstrate the ‘pas de basque’ and ‘skip change of step’ as used in the jig ‘River Cree’.

Film clip available

1950

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TALES FROM THE NORTH [2638]

A man on a day trip to Pitlochry has a fly dram in a bar and ends up hallucinating.

Film clip available

1958

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