| 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. They talk about seasonal work and getting through the winter season. A group of male travellers talk about travelling away from their families and describe the family relationships of travelling people.
Track 1: Actuality with Mr and Mrs Cameron, a wider group of people in the background, and Ewan MacColl. Mrs Cameron talks about a gathering of 'Romany gypsies' which was a festival to which people travel from around the world. 0.49 mins
Track 2 - 3: The couple talk about what needs to change in British society to protect travellers' rights, and about general society's view of travellers.
Track 4 - 5: The couple discuss how travellers pass the time, with reference to singing and playing instruments, dancing and telling stories, flying kites and poaching.
Tracks 6 - 8: Mrs Cameron talks about finding seasonal farm work planting and harvesting crops. She talks about it is getting harder to find a camp for the night, and how farm work often comes with an area to camp on. The group talk about crafts that they do to produce objects to sell, and other jobs that they can do such as gardening.
Tracks 9 - 10: A young woman talks about how she enjoys the travelling way of life, and whether she would settle down when she has a family.
Tracks 11 - 12: The group talk about how they are treated in villages and compare it with their treatment by townsfolk, with reference to Argyll, Scotland.
Track 13: Mrs Cameron talks about people who allow travellers to use their land, and towns people who also use the camp sites that travellers use. 2.00 mins
Track 14: Mr Cameron talks about the difficulties of the travelling way of life, and the attraction of settling down. 1.32 mins
Track 15: Mrs Cameron talks about the tin smithing skills of an older generation, and how aluminium and modern technology has shut down the tin smithing trade. She talks about how basket making is being threated by the increased use of other types of baskets and bags. 2.27 mins
Tracks 16 - 18: The couple talk about how changes in society and fashion affect their traditional trades. They describe fishing for pearls and salmon.
Tracks 19 - 21: A man talks about local camp sites both legal and illegal, and how local councils are fencing some sites off to stop travellers stopping at them.
Track 22: Silence, 1.40 mins
Tracks 23 - 24: Actuality with a group of Scottish travellers. One of the men in the group talks about his stay in Canada. He describes the amenities there. He talks about having to return to Scotland when his family summoned him home. Another man talks about the same situation happening to him.
Track 25: One of the men recites a poem he wrote while working in Canada about being homesick from Scotland and his family. 1.22 mins
Tracks 26 - 28: The man talks about trying to get enough money together to return to Scotland, including a story about a man who had to sell his caravan to raise money. 2.05 mins
Tracks 29 - 30: The group talk about their close-knit families and the advantages and disadvantages of being do close to their families.
Track 31: The group talk about their family histories; some of them have relatives who were not originally travellers. 0.47 mins
Tracks 32 - 33: One of the men talks about joining the territorial army as a teenager and being sent to war in the 1930s and 40s.
Track 34: The group talk about how arguments are resolved in their families. 0.34 mins
Track 35: One of the men talks about his loyalty to travelling people as a whole. 1.12 mins
Tracks 36 - 41: The group talk about the loyalites that travelling people have and the family heirarchies, including the roles of men and women in the typical travelling family. Reference is made to domestic violence and how the travelling community view it.
Track 42: One of the group talks about his sons and how he encouraged them to learn to make money for themselves, and how to look after their own money. 2.02 mins
Tracks 43 - 44: The group talk about saving money and the cost of buying a house. They return to talking about the roles of women and men in their community.
Total: 1.04.16 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0332780 |