OUR THREE R's
Full length video
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Title: OUR THREE R's
Reference number: 2049
Date: 1961
Director: d. Henry Cooper
Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland
Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 22.17 mins
Description:
The educational services provided in Glasgow, including work in primary schools, secondary schools and technical training for day release students.
Replaced earlier Glasgow Education Committee production EDUCATION AT YOUR SERVICE - see ref. 5636.
Paper Archive file containing correspondence and scripts.
Credits:
sc. W.G. Beaton
cam. Russell Walker
nar. Bryden Murdoch
Shotlist:
REEL 1
Titles (0.13) shots of boy being taken to primary school by his mother on his first day [Cleddans Primary School, Katewell Ave, Drumchapel, now demolished] (1.26) Robert and his classmates go into the school (1.41) shots of Knightswood Secondary School, and girl starting secondary education (2.28) shots of boy in ferry crossing the Clyde (2.43) shots of boy walking through the shipyards and then into Stow College of Engineering (3.22) shots of boy at primary school learning reading, writing and arithmetic, painting, children learning history, geography etc. in the upper primary school: in the refectory, gymnasium, and playground (8.26) pupils at Galloway House, a residential school (9.31)
REEL 2
Shots of girl in first year at Knightswood Secondary School (1.10) shots of Knightswood (1.22) shots of pupils at the school e.g. in the library, in the science laboratories, in the biology labs, in the classrooms, in the workrooms etc. (6.43)
REEL 3
Back to Knightswood Secondary School and shots of the school orchestra (0.37) shots of the pupils of Glasgow's secondary schools at Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms, staying at Glenmore Lodge on a two weeks training course (2.06) shots of Stow College of Engineering (4.06) shots of Clydeside Shipyards with workers and apprentices (4.37) shots of the 'Mobile Apex' on the Clyde (4.47) shots of King George V Bridge over the Clyde (5.03) shots of workers coming out of work (3.28) overshots of George Square (5.44) credits (6.03)