About Scotland on Screen

Film archives are a tremendous resource for learning. They connect us to our past in an immediate and thrilling way, provoking thought, fuelling discussion and inspiring creativity. With digital technology, archive films are now as accessible in the classroom as books and music.

Scotland on Screen is a new website accessible via GLOW website which gives students and teachers free access to films from the Scottish Screen Archive, documenting over a century of Scottish social, economic and environmental change.

As well as simply watching, pupils and teachers will be able to download, create and upload new material to GLOW as films or moving image essays. The material has been selected and tagged for its relevance to learning and teaching in Scottish schools, particularly the Curriculum for Excellence.

Scotland on Screen is a partnership between Scottish Screen, National Library of Scotland and Learning and Teaching Scotland.

"When these gadgets are in the hands of the public, when anyone can photograph the ones who are dear to them, not just in their immobile form, but with movement, action, familiar gestures and the words out of their mouths, then death will no longer be absolute, final."

– French journalist after seeing the first Lumiere film show in 1895