‘Nothing Similar in England’: The Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Education Department and the Utility of ‘Educational Film’ to Scotland

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Time to shine: Scotland's youth arts strategy for ages 0–25

“…Two examples from the work of Scottish Screen's predecessor, the Scottish Film Council, in the 1930s and 1980s both achieved Creative Scotland's ambition for Scotland to establish itself as "an international leader" in its exploration and development of the role of "the arts" (film in the case of the former and media more broadly conceptualised in the latter) in children and young people's everyday lives (Powell, 2015). In neither of these examples, however, did the Scottish Film Council (1934Council ( -1997, constituted as a cultural and an educational organisation, set out with the aim of international leadership.…”