| Description | Compilation of actualities from midget reels. Interviews with Scottish travellers about their way of life and how they view and are viewed by settled people. The last interviewees, Mr and Mrs Cameron, talk about seasonal farm labouring.
Tracks 1 - 2: Indistinct background noise and conversation.
Track 3: An unidentified female group perform a song, 'Please help me I'm falling in love with you...', 0.54 mins
Track 4: Actuality with the female singers and Peggy Seeger. They talk about their travelling lifestyle and the size of their families. They talk about growing up in a caravan with a number of siblings. 1.40 mins
Track 5: The young women talk about how they met their husbands, and if there is any difference between the traveller way of courtship and the settled way. 1.11 mins
Track 6: One of the young women talks about leaving school at 14 years old, 0.19 mins
Track 7: The group talk about their view of settled people, and how they think that they would become ill if they did not travel around. 1.28 mins
Tracks 8 - 10: The group describe the life of a traveller, including reference to being moved on by the police and the effect of this way of life on their children. The group talk about how much healthier traveller children are than settled children.
Tracks 11 - 14: The group talk about the travellers' right to have their way of life, and to have the right to stop at various sites around the country.
Tracks 15 - 16: The group discuss whether there are differences in nature between travellers and settled people. They discuss how they are treated by settled people, and the traveller family unit.
Tracks 17 - 19: The women discuss how traveller children learn when they are not able to continually attend a particular school. They talk about how they educate their children at home.
Track 20: The group recite the various terms that they use to refer to settled people. 0.31 mins
Tracks 21 - 22: Background noise.
Tracks 23 - 27: A man talks to Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker about crop farming, with reference to the tonnage per acre and rotation of the crops. There is a lot of background noise.
Tracks 28 - 30: Indistinct background noise.
Track 31: Actuality with a farm-worker from Kintyre in Argyll Scotland, and Ewan MacColl. The man talks about moving from place to place within Scotland finding farm work, and how he is treated by locals in the areas in which he finds work. 1.36 mins
Tracks 32 - 33: The man talks about where he will move to next and which crops he works on to ensure year-round work, and the difficulties he has in the winter.
Track 34: Actuality with a man and a woman ( Mr and Mrs Cameron) with Charles Parker. They talk about their habit of travelling between certain plots of land, and how this is being changed by local council policies. 1.21 mins
Track 35: Mr Cameron talks about how travelling has changed since he was a child, with reference to his father who was a tinsmith. 1.13 mins
Tracks 36 - 37: Mr Cameron talks about how it is getting harder each year to find somewhere to camp., with reference to difficulties in the winter.
Track 38: Mrs Cameron talks about the difficulty of looking after their horses in the winter, and getting help from a local farmer. 1.38 mins
Tracks 39 - 41: Mr and Mrs Cameron talk about what they like about the travelling way of life and compare it to a settled life. They make reference to the next generation of travelling children, and the future of travelling people.
Track 42: Mrs Cameron tlaks about the barriers to settling down that travellers who consider it face. 0.41 min
Track 43: Mr Cameron talks about having to become a farm labourer as his trade in being a tinsmith has died out. Mrs Cameron talks about the work that she does, including rag trade and horse dealing. 1.11 mins
Track 44: The Camerons talk about how horse dealing is also becoming a more difficult trade. 0.48 mins
Track 45: The couple talk about how farm work is also becoming more mechanised and how that impacts onto their capacity to earn money. 2.05 mins
Total: 52.02 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0332680 |