New & Recent Releases

. . . a rarely seen Scottish comedy classic.

Laxdale Hall, a rarely seen British comedy receiving its first release to home entertainment, is a 1952 film directed by John Eldridge and starring Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Prunella Scales, Fulton Mackay, Jameson Clark and Jean Colin, with Rikki Fulton as a poacher in his first film role.

Also features The Glen Is Ours (1946), a timeless parable of politicians at odds with the will of their electorate. Recently de-mobbed Hector Andrews takes to the hustings to stop Cadisburn Glen being sold and converted from a Lovers' Lane into an amusement park.

DVD running time: 105 mins b/w. Release date: April 5th 2010.

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. . . From the early days of the GPO Film Unit.

A 3-disk release of GPO Film Unit documentaries, 30s Britain Collection, includes films about the many and varied services offered by the Post Office, and those who depended on them.

Disk 1: Granton Trawler (1934); Coal Face (1935); A Job in a Million (1937); Spare Time (1939); The City (1939).

Disk 2: The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1937); North Sea (1938); The Islanders (1939); A Midusummer Day's Work (1939).

Disk 3: The King's Stamp (1935); The Fairy of the Phone (1936); News for the Navy 1937); N or NW (1937); Roadways (1937); The Horsey Mail (1938); Mony a Pickle (1938); Nine for Six (1939).

Total running time: 252 mins b/w.

. . . Scottish Industry in Action.

A collection of industrial films celebrating the achievements of Scottish engineering companies.

Rivers At Work (1958) The development of Hydro-Electric Schemes.

Central Scotland (1962) The industries of Central Scotland.

Young in Heart (1963) Hillman Imp production at Linwood.

The Invergordon Smelter (1972) British Aluminium's plant in construction.

The Clyde Estuary (1975) Shipping and shipbuilding on the Clyde.

DVD running time: 100 mins colour.

. . . Steel in the West of Scotland.

For those interested in the Scottish steel industry The Big Mill - Steel in the West of Scotland, a collection of archive steel-making films.

Make Way For Steel (1966)

Lanarkshire Steelworks (1975)

The Big Mill (1963)

Fullwood Foundries Mossend (c. 1970)

DVD running time: 99 mins colour.

. . . The Early Days of World War II.

A 2-disk release of GPO Film Unit documentaries from the early days of World War II, Britain At War - Christmas Under Fire, is about life on the home front from the beginning of the war up to the blitz.

Disk 1: The First Days
The First Days (1939); The Front Line (1939); Squadron 992 (1940)

Disk 2: Under Fire
Britain Can Take It (1940); Britain At Bay (1940); Story of an Air Communique (1940); Christmas Under Fire (1941); Men of the Lightship (1940)

Total running time: 112 mins b/w.

. . . Industrial Films of Stanley Russell.

A selection of promotional films made by Stanley Russell, industrial film maker, for Scottish engineering companies.

Men of Iron (1966)

A Romance of Engineering (1938)

James Watt (1959)

Story of a Steel Wire Rope (1946)

DVD running time: 97 mins b/w.

. . . The Hollow Mountain.

Two films about Scottish Hydro-Electric schemes, made for the North of Scotland Hydo-Electric Board.

The Moriston Project (1956)

Cruachan (1966)

DVD running time: 81 mins colour.