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Title: DAY BY DAY

Reference number: 5003

Date: 1938

Director: filmed by Ayr Film Unit

Sponsor: Scottish Churches Film Guild

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 14.03 mins

Description: This film records a typical week in the life of a Scottish churchgoing family in 1938. The importance of religion in linking people socially is shown, through youth groups such as Scouts, Cubs and Girls Brigade, mother enjoying a women's 'Work Party' and the care shown by the minister in visiting the family and helping arrange contact for the son when he moves to Aberdeen.

Credits: An Ayr Film Unit Production
Produced by G.R. Cooper for Scottish Churches Film Guild

Shotlist: credits (0.09) The Father, The Mother, The Daughter, The Son-In-Law, The Son, The Younger Daughter, The Younger Son, Scoutmaster, Minister (0.43) gvs family attending church, ints church where minister reads intimations and shot of organist playing, gvs people leaving church (2.10) youngest daughter attending girls brigade, where they look at a map of 'Palestine in the Time of Christ' (2.41) ints Scout Hall where boys in uniform arrive; shot of son in conversation with Minister, showing him a letter appointing him in a job as Shipping Clerk for Robert McDougall in Aberdeen, he is congratulated (3.36) shot of group of Scouts raising the flag (3.50) ints minister's office, writing letter to minister in Aberdeen Parish, arranging to meet the young man (4.44) gvs older women at 'Work Party' sewing, taking tea, chatting etc (5.30) gvs Cubs playing 'ladders', one cub injures ankle and they first aid it (6.58) minister visits family in their home, checks on boy with his foot up (8.01) Choir practice in hall (9.20) group of friends and family see John off at station on an LMS steam train, tracking shots from train and arrival in Aberdeen where he is met by friend in Scout Uniform (11.05) they go to church (11.34) ints church service, where baby is Christened (13.44) ecs (14.03)