Clyde Film (1985)

Clyde Film (1985) by Ian Venart, Charlie Tracy, Ian Miller, Mandy Merrick, Alistair McCallum & Ken Currie Running Time: 32mins 23secs The film utilises a pictorial documentary style using music and images to tell the story of Glasgow and its people, montaging scenes shot in Glasgow with archive footage and stills. It uses traditional Glasgow and political songs to do the storytelling and sits in a lineage of films about the city which include Marzaroli’s ‘Dear Green Place’ (1968), ‘Glasgow 1980’ (1971) and the Dawn Cine Group’s ‘Let Glasgow Flourish’ (1956). Cranhill Arts then concentrated on photography as a more accessible and democratic medium, and inspired, in part, by Marzaroli’s stills they went on to undertake the biggest photographic survey in Scotland with the project ‘Glaswegians’ by taking 29,000 photographs up to and during Glasgow City of Culture 1990. Courtest of Alastair McCallum For more information visit: http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/...