Biology teachers cutting up unruly pupils and woodwork masters making coffins for the victims. It sounds like a Hollywood horror epic.
But no, it is the plot of the Blantyre High School Film Society production, “A Tour of the School” which in December 1977 won the Scottish Association of Amateur Cinematographers Prize at the Scottish International Amateur Festival in Glasgow.
The pupils who made it, Tom Brownlie, Austen Walsh, Douglas Sheppard, John MacMillan, Ian Taylor and George Hay, with help from teacher Brian Mathieson, were specially delighted as it was the first film the Society has ever made.
Pictured are just some of the Blantyre studio team. Austen Walsh shoots a scene, Brian Mathieson checks the footage of the last ‘take’ and George Hay handles the lights.
