This is a past event
Ethnographic Film Series
This entertaining heritage film captures many aspects of a past way of life. Recorded in Aberdeenshire between 1991 and 1994, produced by Don Carney, who is a native of Aberdeenshire, the commentary features the Doric dialect of the North East. The film shows the whole process of ploughing, planting and harvesting featuring that gentle giant, the Cludesdale horse. Threshing with the steam engine and traveling mill, making corn into oatmeal at the water driven meal mill, and finally baking the oatmeal into oatcakes on a peat fire. All of these highly skilled tasks were undertaken by the rural men and women. Don Carney's motivation for making the film, and capturing over 650 hours of the past, is based on cultural pride in his ancestors, the ordinary folk of the North East. Carney felt that the rich heritage/culture of the area should be captured before it was lost for good.
The film will be followed by a discussion with the film maker, Don Carney.
- Hosted by
- The Elphinstone Institute
- Venue
- MacRobert Building
- Contact
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No booking required
Free event, all welcome