The Films of Scotland Documentaries - Timeline

Filming in Winter

1937	Documentary pioneer John Grierson makes a speech in Stirling on the need for a non-fiction film movement in Scotland. The speech is taken up by the Scottish press.
1938	The Scottish Secretary of State and the Scottish Development Council set up the first Films of Scotland Committee.
	Seven films are produced for the 1938 Glasgow Empire Exhibition. The films are: The Wealth of a Nation, The Face of Scotland, They Made the Land, The Children's Story, Sea Food, Scotland for Fitness and Sport in Scotland.
1939	The seven documentaries are screened in the American social science pavilion at the New York World Fair
	Dundee, the only other documentary produced by the Committee before the war, is completed.
1943	The Secretary of State for Scotland and the Scottish Development Council terminate the Committee, and its materials are deposited in the Central Office of Information.

Images are drawn from the SCRAN database.