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Title: TIME IS NOW, the

Reference number: 7813

Date: 1989, April

Sponsor: Campaign for a Scottish Assembly / STUC

Production company: Big Star in a Wee Picture

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 19.26 mins

Description: A film made for the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly as part of a campaign to promote public awareness of the need for devolution for Scotland.

Part of National Archives of Scotland collection (NAS ref GD489). Videotapes from the collection transferred to National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive for preservation.

Credits: Production Team: Stephen Arthur, Nicola Black, Stuart Bruce, Andrea Calderwood, Grant Cameron, Jerry Kelly, Berny McGurk, Charly Murray, Jane Sillars

With thanks to: Pullman Scotland, Scottish Film Archive, Dawn Cine Group, Holden & Fisher Ltd.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS - manual control track]

The Campaign for a Scottish Assembly is a broad based organisation drawing support from political parties, local government, the Church, trade unions and other Scottish Institutions. It was the moving force behind the establishment of the Constitutional Convention which is drawing up proposals for Scottish self government. - talking head Canon Kenyon Wright - title - Campaign for a Scottish Assembly - Introducing Scotland - SCOTTISH CULTURE (1.21) brief shots from archive footage: family dancing in kitchen, young couple, boy playing chanter, country dancing in cornfield, mountaineer, kilted singer - Muriel Gray, broadcaster - talking head about Scottish cultural identity - Cairns Craig, academic - talking head about Scottish cultural identity (2.39) Neil MacCormick, Professor of Law - talking head about Scottish institutional culture - talking head Cairns Craig about Scottish cultural achievements in the 1980s - c/u shots books and records (4.02) Introducing Scotland - RADICAL SCOTLAND - Ken Currie, artist - talking head and shots of Currie at work - gvs People's Palace mural (4.57) Isobel Lindsay, sociologist - talking head about Scottish radicalism - c/u shots newspaper cuttings - archive footage of street demonstrations (5.56) William McIlvanney, writer - talking head about Scottish political nature - shots of People's Palace displays, archive photos of demonstrations including UCS (7.17) Canon Kenyon Wright - Scottish Council of Churches - talking head about Westminster control of Scotland - cartoons depicting Margaret Thatcher and Malcolm Rifkind - talking head Muriel Gray about constitutional change (8.48) Introducing Scotland - SCOTTISH CHOICES - gvs 'Free Scotland' graffiti on wall - talking head Neil MacCormick about devolution - more shots of graffiti (9.43) factory shot - talking head Campbell Christie, STUC in factory about Scottish trade and economy - gv Scott Lithgow shipyard and cranes, Caterpillar factory ext, British Steel Gartcosh Works ext (10.47) talking head Duncan McNeil - Ex shop steward, Scott Lithgow about decline of Scottish industry - talking head Kenyon Wright about need for Scottish Parliament, shot of debating chamber - gvs of European Parliament debating chamber (12.11) talking head Neal Ascherson, journalist about Scotland's place in Europe - gvs parliament building in Brussels - gvs Royal High School building, Calton Hill - talking head Duncan McNeil - archive footage of street demonstrations and parades, James Maxton speaking (13.13) Introducing Scotland - SCOTTISH DEMOCRACY - talking head William McIlvanney about Scottish assembly - talking head Campbell Christie about economy - talking head Alan Armstrong, Convenor, CSA about constitutional change - talking head Isobel Lindsay about local democracy - talking head Ken Currie about Scottish assembly - talking head Kenyon Wright about Scottish Constitutional Convention - talking head Muriel Gray about importance of retaining cultural identity (16.55) archive footage of Tom Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1948 talking about need for Scottish self-government (18.19) Kenyon Wright speaking at General Assembly - ecs (19.26)