Happy Weekend (1949) Their is no sound with this actual film. The idea here started with the notion of keeping a record of mural paintings-being done by the children in Norton Park School. A plot or story was devised, the shooting in black and white-until the moment when the painters dip their brushes in colour. This happy weekend covers Friday night, Saturday Morning, Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Night and Sunday-the art teacher's part taken by a pupil. THE SINGING STREET (1951) First film to show city children's games. Their progress is followed along an ideal thoroughfare. In songs where ancient ritual, myth, the mountain and the rose, mingle with taxis, telephones and powder-puffs. Old rhymes rarely dying-something new always appearing. No-one asks "What does this mean?" The world's accepted, poetry's kept alive. Favourite topic, love and death. Not meant for education or entertainment but belonging the art of play. Shot in six Easter days of boisterous weather, the cast, mostly girls, numbering sixty. THE GREY METROPOLIS (1952) A remembrance of his Edinburgh days-and nights-by Robert Louis Stevenson. The camera pictures, or suggests, the rich and varied thoughts of R.L.S. With his sprightly character we see the city's character the better through her streets and lamps, kirk-bells and kirkyairds, pubs and closes, gardens and gutters, statues and stones. The version of How Many Miles to Babylon is chanted like it was in the 1870's. The thoughts of R.L.S. are spoke by Ian Gilmour, the Queen's Maries and the Willlow Song sung by Mary Sked, and the Gay Japanee by Douglas McMahon. THE FLOWER AND THE STRAW (1955) Dealing briefly with London life in the 1830's, this film is based on Dicken's Sketches by Boz, and George Cruikshank's etchings which illustrate the book. Charles Dicken's commentary throughout is spoken by the poet and once well-known BBC announcer and news reader Joseph MacLeod.