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Cinema exhibition product range

Drop into our shop to browse and buy from a selection that includes items relating to NLS collections. Here is some of our newest stock.

 

NLS 2013 calendar

Calendar cover
Calendar: £5.95

Discover a few of the fascinating treasures held in the Library with the NLS calendar for 2013, featuring striking images from our collections.

Images include:

  • A hand-coloured engraving of the Battle of Culloden, from around 1750-1800
  • Colourful advertising for Bartholomew's half-inch to the mile maps, from around 1935
  • The Virgin and Child, from Dean Brown's Prayer Book, which dates from around 1498
  • On the cover: 'Highland boys walk to school, mid-nineteenth century' from 'Picturesque gatherings of the Scottish Highlanders' by R R McIan and James Logan.

 

Cinema exhibition product range

Detail from 'Frankly hen I don't gie a damn' poster

Our 'Going to the pictures' exhibition inspired a range of goodies:

Posters and postcards

Choose from our seven designs for marketing posters and postcards each showing a famous film quote that has been 'Scotified'. Or buy all seven!

Poster text 'Luke A'hm yer Da'
Poster: £4.50
Postcard: £0.50
Poster text 'Where we're going we dinnae need roads'
Poster: £4.50
Postcard: £0.50
Poster text 'Ah pure luve the reek of naplam in the morning'
Poster: £4.50
Postcard: £0.50

Available as poster only:

Poster text 'We're gonna need a bigger boat'
£4.50
Post text 'Mrs Robinson are you trying to winch me'
£4.50

Available as postcard only:

Poster text 'Fankly hen I dinna gie a damn'
£0.50
Poster text 'Say hello to my wee pal'
£0.50
'Let's go to the movies' postcard
Standard: £0.60
Large: £1.00
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DVD of films shown in the exhibition

DVD cover
£15

Experience cinema-going in Scotland through historic film clips, cinema advertising and film-location shooting, from 1895 right up to the present day.

  • Clips from historic films, including footage showing the Gordon Highlanders around 1899
  • The earliest representation of Scottishness on screen in the 'Execution of Mary Queen of Scots' (1895)
  • Location and queuing for films from around the 1920s
  • Star-spotting, featuring, among others, Vera Reynolds, Sir Harry Lauder and Sean Connery
  • 'World War Z' filming that brough Brad Pitt to Glasgow in 2012.

Films featured on this DVD are from the collections in the NLS Scottish Screen Archive.

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Lantern slides range

For these designs we used mostly old cinema lantern slides, which are held at the Scottish Screen Archive.

'It's lolly time' mug
Mug: £6.50
Sold in all three designs
Drinks coaster
Coaster: £3.50
Sold in all three designs
Fridge magnet
Fridge magnet: £2.00
Sold in all three designs
Notebook
Notebook: £2.75
Sold in all three designs
Key ring
Leatherette key ring: £3.50
Single design only

 

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