In Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink, Scottish Screen Archive at National Library of Scotland are offering audiences the chance to take a nostalgic look at Scottish culinary tastes from years past in Meals on Reels.
This delightful programme of short films and extracts showcases bygone food and drink products, and methods of production and advertising from before, during and after the Second World War.
Divided into a ‘menu’ of footage, it features everything from Arbroath Smokies, Dundee Peh and Black Pudding to Dunlop Cheese, Lofty Peak cake and, of course, whisky.
Programme notes, education notes and suggestions of how to enhance your screening will be made available. A separate school-friendly programme without any clips related to alcohol is also available.
Scottish Screen Archive is Scotland’s film archive. It is part of the National Library of Scotland and is located in Glasgow. It contains a vast collection of moving images that capture the ordinary lives of people living and working in Scotland from the beginning of filmmaking in the mid 1890s to date.
