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Filmscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written forms of stories prepared for motion picture productions, including description of characters, details of scenes and settings, dialogue, and stage directions.

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Camera script for "Cò loisg air?", 2002

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13916/19
Scope and Contents

Title page reads: "Cò loisg air? A drama/documentary (60 mins) for BBC Alba". Script for a dramatised documentary about the Appin Murder of 1752, produced by Caledonia Sterne and Wyld. Dated at end: August 2002.

Dates: 2002

Camera script for "Songs all the Way" (9), 1963

 File
Identifier: Acc.13916/16
Scope and Contents

Camera script for episode 9 of a BBC television programme "Songs all the way", filmed on 1 December 1963 and broadcast on 11 December 1963. Featuring a selection of Gaelic songs performed by soloists and by Glasgow Islay Gaelic Choir, presented by Donald Thomson. [2], 25 ff.

Dates: 1963

File, 'A gift from Nessus film script'., [?1966-?2015].

 File
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 1(7)
Scope and Contents

The file contains various loose-leaf typescripts and manuscripts. In addition to the film script the file would appear to include typescript extracts from the novel 'A gift from Nessus'.

Dates: [?1966-?2015].

Film script for "Mary, Queen of Scots" (1971).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13851
Content Description

Shooting script for the film "Mary, Queen of Scots", directed by Charles Jarrott. Cover title: "Mary, Queen of Scots No. 00117. Shooting script April 29th, 1971". The screenplay was written by John Hale. The script contains a number of replacement scenes, but the leaves are numbered continuously.

Dates: 1971

Film script of an adaptation of 'The cone gatherers' by Robin Jenkin., 1983.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12233/71
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1983.

Manuscript and typescript of film script of 'The story of a recluse'., 1987.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9417/87-88
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, literary fragments and personal documents.

Dates: 1987.

Manuscript of film script of 'The story of a recluse'., 1987.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9417/87
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, literary fragments and personal documents.

Dates: 1987.

Material by Robert McLellan for a film version of 'The Daftie' for television., 1978.

 File
Identifier: MS.26418
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a corrected typescript of the original short story (folio 1), manuscript of the dialogue (folio 13), and the film shooting script and schedule (folios 29, 56).

Dates: 1978.

Miscellaneous drafts and fragments of dramatic pieces by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1939-1961, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26141
Scope and Contents

Included are notes and verse for 'Protest: an oratorio', 1939 (folio l), an early version of the beginning of ‘The Stick-up’, broadcast in 1961 and published in ‘Fifteen poems and a play’ (Edinburgh, 1969), pages 1-33 (folio 59), and notes for and the typescript of a film script, 'The Shepherd of Ettrick', undated (folio 74).

Dates: 1939-1961, undated.

Radio and film scripts of Tom Pow., 1983-1997.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12233/71-81
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1983-1997.

Revised shooting script of "Whisky Galore!", with annotated typescript of first film treatment.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13497
Scope and Contents

Revised shooting script for the film "Whisky Galore!" (released, 1949), dated 16 July 1948, and bearing the `tentative title` "Liquid Treasure". Loosely inserted is a typescript of a first treatment titled "Tight Little Island". This carries numerous annotations and amendments, some in the hand of Compton Mackenzie. The film was released as "Tight Little Island" in the United States.

Dates: 1948.

Typescript of film script of 'The story of a recluse'., 1987.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9417/88
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, literary fragments and personal documents.

Dates: 1987.

Typescripts and working notes of the scripts and screenplays of Ian Rankin for film., 1999-2010.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50506-50510
Scope and Contents

This series contains typescripts of, and associated working papers for, scripts and screenplays of Ian Rankin for film. The working papers include developmental and editorial notes of Ian Rankin and others. Also included are administrative papers relating to the process of film production, including budget notes and administrative correspondence.

Dates: 1999-2010.