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 […]
Blantyre High Film Society was formed in 1975 to maintain pupil’s interest in the cinema in a community where the nearest cinema was in a different town. In May 1979, the young members of the film society, already International Winners went on to further success. They had won the Best School Society award in […]
A new film society was formed in March 1979 in High Blantyre. Films were shown every third Tuesday night in the Old Parish Church Halls at the corner of Hunthill Road. The society was formed by Austin Walsh, of 116 Waverley Terrace, High Blantyre, a former pupil of Blantyre High School. The school already […]
In November 1978, Blantyre High pupils and teachers were celebrating. The School’s Film Society had picked up 3 awards including a top award for “International Amateur Film of the Year”. Incredibly the winning film was chosen from 70 other entrants, many of them at University , rather than schools. The School won the Victor […]