Templar Film Studios

Life in the Scottish new town of Glenrothes in the Kingdom of Fife, including a royal visit.

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

A look at the Scottish woollen industry.

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.

Documents a visit of Queen Elizabeth to Scotland.

Documenting the construction of two major steelworks in Scotland.

The screening of the short film 'Faces' at the 1961 Edinburgh and London Film Festivals kick started the film career of young McConnell, then studying at Glasgow School of Art. 'Faces', a comment on the personas we adopt, was inspired by a visit to the Brussels Experimental Film Festival of 1958 where McConnell saw the work of many European film makers, films of a genre unseen at that time in Britain. Many were without words, telling their stories in a variety of genres, live action, animation, puppetry, and making social comments on their times.

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

A look at the work of the Scottish artists John Maxwell, Joan Eardley and Robin Philipson.

Construction work on the Cruachan dam in Scotland.

The building of the Ben Cruachan pumped-storage hydro-electric scheme.

The building of a hydro electric station in Scotland.

The history and modern day industry of Stirlingshire, Scotland.