https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/02fc84e2-caf2-443d-a186-264a39c1884e Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com "The Heart is Highland" (1952) is a color documentary produced by British Transport Films and directed by British documentary filmmaker John Taylor. Opening with the Clan Gathering in Edinburgh as part of the Festival of Britain (1951), this film coincided with a post-war significant social and economic transition in Scotland. This film offers a glimpse into the Highland’s landscape, heritage, innovations, major industries and life of its people. Film opens, title and credits (00:08). Anonymous quote on screen (00:25). Crowd on Princes Street celebrating Clan Gathering, with Edinburgh Castle in b/g (00:29). Marching band with kilt outfits, scepters and bagpipes passes by St John's Scottish Episcopal Church (00:36), and through crowd gathered in front of Caledonian Hotel (00:56). Forth Rail Bridge over Firth of Forth estuary, showing train crossing (1:14). Countryside views from train traveling from lowlands to highlands (1:29). Grampian Mountains (1:55). Bus arrives in town square, where men, women, children, a fisherman and a hunter, socialize (2:28). Woman pays and interacts (muted) with bus driver (3:08). Passengers board bus, operated by W. Alexander & Sons Ltd, former major Scottish bus company (3:22). Bus driver seen with poster behind him, advertising Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow, part of Festival of Britain (3:47). Bus departs and passes street sign indicating distances to Struan and Pitlochry (3:52). Bus stops by a house, where district nurse hands him a letter to deliver (4:07). Bus drives along a lake (4:30). Old road built by General Wade after Jacobite uprising of 1715, alongside new road across Moor of Rannoch (4:58). Bus navigates on new road through Glencoe Defile, alongside old road (5:26). Bus stops at roadside “Wayside box”, designed to deliver to remote areas (5:45). Sheep farm, where farmers with border collies manage flocks (6:06) and transfer sheep and lambs onto rowing boat (6:28). Construction of Pitlochry hydroelectric dam and its workers (7:32); man-made loch with submerged old road, trees and grass (8:16), worker at dam's power station (8:59), water turbines in operation (9:27). Fisherman in river down the dam (9:56). Views of loch and hills with young pine trees (10:03). Foresters' activities: climbing stone fence, carrying logs with horse through forest, chopping logs with circular saw (10:35). Gamekeeper stalks vermin in forest (11:13). Men skiing down snowy slope surrounded by dry rocky mountains in June (11:59). Hikers walking green mountain side then sitting watching lake and mountain in b/g (12:24). Views of lake, mountain, foliage (13:12). Views of railroad, boat steamer and sea coastline (13:43), ruins of 13th Century Castle Urquhart on Loch Ness (14:14), and intact 13th Century Eilean Donan Castle on West coast tidal island (14:22). Exterior of 14th Century Glamis Castle, with Scottish Baronial architecture and French château influences (14:28). Interior of Glamis Castle: stone spiral stairway (14:53), crypt (15:06) with suit of armor and pierced chestplate (15:17), door with stag skull and sword and stairs leading to “Duncan’s room” (famous from Shakespeare's Macbeth) King of Scotland 1034-1040 (15:26), and portrait of James V King of Scotland 1513-1542 (15:52). Drawing room (15:58) with molded ceiling showing date 1621 (16:05), fireplace (16:18), and family portraits, including Lady Arbella Stuart (16:30). Cecilia Bowes-Lyon’s bedroom, Countess of Strathmore (16:42), with bedhead family arms embroidery (17:00) and children’s names and birthdates on canopy (17:12). Views of Inverness, capital of Highland (17:31), including local newspaper office (17:41) and factory (18:01). Fishing vessel “Dragon” on Caledonian Canal, connecting the Atlantic and North Sea (18:11). Fishing boats and fishermen, perhaps in Buckie harbor (18:19). Highland cow and calf, cattle farmers, and market pens with Glenlochy Distillery in b/g (18:32). Cattle ranch with tractor exiting, and black Angus cattle (18:46). Men rolling whisky barrels out of Ben Nevis Distillery (19:05). Town in valley with aluminum plant operating (19:21). Edinburgh Castle (19:39) and crowds on Princes Street for Clans Gathering (19:54). Film ends (20:31). If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. 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