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Title: GATEWAY OF THE EAST, the

Reference number: 0463

Date: 1937

Director: d. J. C. Elder

Production company: Gaumont British Instructional Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.00 mins

Description: An educational film, describing the dependence of Scotland's population on imports, and the importance of Leith Docks as "The Gateway of the East" in the export and import of goods to and from Europe. Horses feature prominently as dray animals, hauling timber and other goods.

See 11/1/284 for Teaching notes.

Credits: ph. J. Blake Dalrymple
Distributed by: G.B. Equipments Limited
The G.B.I. Geography of Scotland
Made in Collaboration with a Panel of Scottish Teachers

Shotlist: Credits (0.25); Street scenes in Glasgow, trams, horse-drawn carts; tenements; factories (1.00); Animated map of population distribution of Scotland (1.20); Shots of docks with LMS rail wagons, cranes, ships unloading; horses drawing carts of barrels and timber; Shops; Grocer; Butcher; Fruit market; Greengrocer (2.34); Shots of various ships in the Firth of Forth (4.04); Map showing Port of Leith (4.25); Elevated pan over Leith Docks, showing man-made quays; cargo vessels unloading timber, butter, eggs and flax; coal loaded for export; shots of ale and beer barrels being unloaded from the Park Brewery, v/o mentions Edinburgh has become second largest brewing area in Britain (7.25); ecs (7.40)