A travelling film festival is to give north-east people the chance to take a trip back in time.
Made In My Toun will stop off at the city’s Belmont Filmhouse tomorrow , where public information film, The Silver City, will be screened to look back on the postwar Aberdeen which had yet to experience the oil and gas boom.
Made by Anglo Scottish Pictures, the film was commissioned in 1957 by the now defunct town council, and premiered at the city’s iconic Capitol Theatre.
It was the first film commissioned by a Scottish local authority and was produced to encourage people to visit the city.
Until now, it has been contained in the British Film Institute’s archive, but it is now a part of the organisation’s UK-wide Britain on Film, which has opened up 120 years-worth of archive footage to the public.
Shona Thomson, curator of the festival, encouraging film fans young and old to come along.
“It’s a joy to watch, people will come to the cinema and recognise some of the places if they are of a certain vintage,” she said.
“One of the best things about it is people will experience it in the Belmont Filmhouse, on a big screen, which is what it was designed for.
“It was a really bold move from the local authority, to have the foresight to use film to promote your town at a time when the medium was becoming more and more popular.”
Made In My Toun, which stopped off in Inverness earlier this month, will visit seven towns and cities across Scotland.
The Aberdeen screening will begin at 3.30pm, followed by a discussion with a panel of experts.