Widespread interest in film about Moray's Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
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A new film about Ramsay MacDonald has generated interest among political historians in Cambridge and requests for screenings in Canada and Australia.
The film, titled From the Darkness into the Light, had an exclusive and well-received preview before a Lossiemouth audience in December.
This was followed by a screening at Alex Wood Hall Cambridge on invitation from the local Labour party.
Yvonne Findlay, the film's director who lives in Forres, has now been invited back later this month to show it again.
The screening will be followed by discussion with Yvonne and a number of political historians.
Born in near-poverty in Lossiemouth, Ramsay MacDonald became the UK's first Labour Prime Minister exactly a century ago in 1924.
The impetus for making this film was the discovery of a box of old cine reels under the stairs of his Lossiemouth home.
The home-movie footage from around the 1920s revealed personal insights into Ramsay as a family man and also wonderful footage of Lossiemouth’s fishing community during that era.
Yvonne said: "The day his grand-daughter and myself discovered the cine reels was the day I knew I had to make this documentary."
Film screening dates:
Eden Court Inverness, March 1. Eden Court Box Office.
Forres Tolbooth, April 18. Ticket Source
Aberdeen Arts Centre, May 1. Ticket Source.
St Margaret’s Hope, Orkney, May 22. Ticket Source
More dates to be confirmed.
