Clyde Film (1985)

Clyde Film (1985) by Ian Venart, Charlie Tracy, Ian Miller, Mandy Merrick, Alistair McCallum & Ken Currie
Running Time: 32mins 23secs
The film utilises a pictorial documentary style using music and images to tell the story of Glasgow and its people, montaging scenes shot in Glasgow with archive footage and stills. It uses traditional Glasgow and political songs to do the storytelling and sits in a lineage of films about the city which include Marzaroli’s ‘Dear Green Place’ (1968), ‘Glasgow 1980’ (1971) and the Dawn Cine Group’s ‘Let Glasgow Flourish’ (1956).
Cranhill Arts then concentrated on photography as a more accessible and democratic medium, and inspired, in part, by Marzaroli’s stills they went on to undertake the biggest photographic survey in Scotland with the project ‘Glaswegians’ by taking 29,000 photographs up to and during Glasgow City of Culture 1990.
Courtest of Alastair McCallum
For more information visit: www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/...

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Lived in Glasgow 1975 -81 . The Music / the fashion / the ease of life at that time seems like a dream now. Walked down Union St recently. Charity shop / Sweet shop / Vape shop / Charity shop / Poundland / Vape shop etc..etc..

[@aclark903]

I don’t see charity shops or poundlands as bad tho. Better than empty shells. Vape shops on the other hand- bloody vampires, feeding off poverty and despair.

[@transferdatathreewally24]

I was a small kid in south west glasgow mid 70s. My glasgow was and is green, leafy, beautiful, cosmic, near albert park. Lovely memories that are with me now. Right this instant, i feel im there. Stood looking at the cart and the trees. I think the junction of cart side street and carmichael place is a very special place.

[@sapien82]

@@transferdatathreewally24 southside is the best , lived here for over a decade now and I love the parks

[@tammailer6054]

A lot has changed since I was born in the forties, and not always for the better, but I still love the old place.

[@hatednyc]

Really? You see the direction these prokes in office are taking your country and you’re good with it?

[@PaulBrown-rb7vb]

A blast from the past!👍🏻

[@ryannewton9934]

God bless the Time Machine that is KZbin 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 love it 👍🏻👍🏻

[@chasmala]

This was shot in 16 mm 4x3 aspect ratio It is shown in 16x9 therefore some of the framing doesn’t seem quite right.

[@aidanlynn]

When people think of the 80s they think of neon and bright colours but I think of grey, because of films like this.

[@wboyle9721]

Glasgow was on its knees here the city is still trying to recover today with bad planning in the past

[@sookmajoaby]

Still repeating mistakes

[@boyfromblackstuff7859]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[@Saint_Dan132]

I wonder of the creator had "the wall " in mind made me think of that also what a wonderful look at the past and childhood memories indeed . I was born in barlanark living in the south side. Glasgow born and bread

[@tropicalpalmtree]

I loved how many tower blocks glasgow had.

[@Taliesin-xd7ke]

A lot of them are gone now sadly, coz they weren't maintained as well as they should've been as well as being trashed/ vandalised by residents/ surrounding locals who felt no connection to them. I still stay in one group that I think/hope will last the test of time.

[@gerrynicol3951]

The multi flats where only built for a replacment for the auld Tenaments but as mentioned they did,nt get looked after. lots now demolished for more back and front door house,s the city is looking good slowly but for the better.

[@YANHAP1]

16:41 Denmilne St at Finlarig St; 16:42 Denmilne St looking east toward Lentran St, number 8 Denmilne at the end.

[@OnyxSkyz]

Shout out to the Glasgow crew 🎉

[@grahampearson1614]

You can almost smell the Dust,

[@TheGrowler55]

A lot of the High Rise Flats have been flattened since this was made, everything was getting knocked down then....sadly, it's a different City now. 😎

[@bigerch85]

So you'd rather go back to Glasgow of the 70s that was bleak as fuck ?! It's was bloody grim back then.

[@neilkendall5499]

Are any of these high rise blocks of flats still there? They looked massive! Must've been a pretty rough area, no?

[@christophercolquhoun2793]

@@neilkendall5499 Aye they were really rough but been gone for a long time now..well the ones at 15.56 (red road) were knocked down about 10 year ago, the ones at about 16.50 (hutchie E) were pulled down about 1993 i think.

[@smallfeet4581]

​@@neilkendall5499 rough before them too ,

[@justgaming2600]

so folks going on about the high flats and there demolishing. yeah was all part of councils , sneaky long term plan of gentrification. i lived in red rd, shawbridge street and tarfside oval flats. You think the people that lived in these flats are now staying in the £200k+ plus houses that occupy some of these sites now? yeah 20% in almost all cases got to remain in that area with the "new builds" and the rest private houses/flats. Gorbals high rises? Hutchie etc, want a flat there now? hope you have spare 300k to live in "new gorbals". That was not modernisation. The council should have done them up and put restrictions on who lived there eg you work or have a family. They offered an amazing view of the city which we live and the whole clyde valley. Want to live like that now? yeah go and live down glasgow harbour at 1k PM , otherwise, look at a main road out your window from your ground floor cheap new house as your replacement-disgusting. What about south nitshill? full massive council estate, being knocked down for "modernisation", now chock full of £300k+ houses on probably band d/e council tax band and not 1 resident from that area of the old scheme there..........................yeah nothing to see here.

[@JIMMYCFC]

The young guy at 21:12 I'd say that's defo bellrock path in cranhill & if it is I can't mind name it's bugging me cause I stayed just along from him. Great to see the old houses.

[@joefear251]

Aye, its bellrock path, its jamie tracey, he stayed at number 2.

[@JIMMYCFC]

@@joefear251 So it is i was thinking it was number 1. I mind Taw & ann marie well. Cheers pal.

[@chasmala]

My brother Thomas Tracey

[@chasmala]

⁠@@joefear251Thomas Tracey

[@JIMMYCFC]

@@chasmala I mind your family well I was a young kid when your family lived there but Ann marie used to look after me with Carol & Marie mundy. Thomas is a good guy always stopped for chat or kick about.

[@myownprivateglasgow280]

U need to get into the hills that make Glasgow in order to be a Glaswegian. Not the fkn shipyards and shitholes.

[@dmgsoultogetherness6667]

bleak

[@astra47420]

Reell man and woman in the old hard day's not like to days

[@radioandtvmemories6178]

An absolute mess of a film

[@chasmala]

How So ? Won Best Documentary at Scottish Amateur Film Festival picked up an award at the World Festival of Youth & Students shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival lots of people who know about film making would disagree with you

[@ministryofanti-feminism1493]

Shame about the Commie shit towards the end.

[@Marc-so2cd]

A horrible city. Human beings need to be happy like rabbits?? In Glasgow they definitely did breed like rabbits.

[@Cypher791]

Much of those Govan shipyards are still abandoned and undeveloped now 🧱😔

[@jdh6752]

Where?