Document Kilts, Tanks and Aeroplanes: Scotland, Cinema and the First World War

The centenary of the First World War's outbreak has received extensive media attention this year, often featuring well-known moving images from newsreels and official films. These factual and propaganda films, however, are only one aspect of the relationship between cinema and the war, at a peak time for cinema's popularity in Scotland.

Glasgow University researchers Dr Maria Velez-Serna and Dr David Archibald discuss the films made in Scotland during the war, looking at how the conflict was pictured for Scottish audiences, and how the cinema trade's commercial interests converged with the state's militaristic rhetoric.