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Introducing Scotland on Screen

Scotland on Screen is an exciting educational resource that puts hundreds of important historical film texts online, providing students with a rear-view mirror on our society over the past century.

Scotland on Screen and 21st Century Literacy

This resource is also about introducing young people to the language of moving images and promoting the aims of 21st Century Literacy. This means showing students that audio-visual narratives are complex, multi-layered texts that need to be analysed to be properly understood.

What can I do?

You can search for, view, analyse and discuss lots of historical film clips from the Scottish Screen Archive (part of National Library of Scotland) and make use of the extensive learning resources designed by teachers from across Scotland and Creative Scotland's lead practitioners in Moving Image Education.

How do I log in?

Please read the Scotland on Screen site access document which contains important information about site login. Note that you must be logged in to the site to download our Scotland on Screen film clips.

With a Glow username and password you have free access to these educational resources - you simply login to this site via Glow

If you are not a Glow user but belong to a UK Further Education College or University, it's likely your institution will be a member of the UK Access Management Federation - staff belonging to these member bodies should login as a Shibboleth user

If you do not have any kind of login, you can request access here

Site Access and Use Policies

Our site access and copyright protection policies apply to all users.  

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Scotland on Screen is a partnership project between Creative Scotland, National Library of Scotland and Education Scotland