Lights, camera, action!...Rob Roy is one of the best known works of Sir Walter Scott and, since the earliest days of the motion picture industry, adaptions of it have been regularly filmed in Scotland, including on location in the Trossachs. In his talk, Mr James Kennedy, will describe the background to how these films came to be made, including some of the personalities involved.
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| Actor David Hawthorne as Rob Roy in the eponymous 1922 film on the cover of Bioscope, 21st September 1925 (from the British Newspaper Archive). |
James is a historian who lives in the Trossachs, and has recently researched its use as a location for film making. A detailed account has been published in Scottish Local History, the journal of the Scottish Local History Form of which he is a trustee. On his previous visit to the Society in March 2020, he spoke on the 1919 influenza pandemic, just as the reality of Covid was becoming only too clear a few days before the first lockdown.
The meeting will be held in the Park Centre, 45 Kerr Street, Kirkintilloch, G66 1LF at 7.30 pm. The annual membership subscription is £10 and visitors are welcome at all of the Society's evening events.
