A double-bill of films made in the 1950s which show how the shadow of the atomic bomb shaped the post-war creative work of two Scottish filmmakers whose personal and working papers are held in the University of Stirling Archives.

Born in Stirling, Norman McLaren (1914-1987) was an experimental filmmaker and animator. His 1952 Oscar-winning short Neighbours tells the deceptively simple tale of two people fighting over possession of a flower. Better known as a director of feature films including This Sporting Life and If…. Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994) began his filmmaking career making documentaries. In The March to Aldermaston he reports on the first anti-nuclear march to Aldermaston in 1958, a key event in the establishment of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

The screening will be introduced by Karl Magee, University Archivist, and co-curator of the exhibition REMEMBERED: in the Archive

This screening is part of a series of events to accompany the exhibition Remembered: 80 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which is on display on Level 3 of Campus Central at the University of Stirling until 14th November. For further details about the exhibition Remembered: Hiroshima and Nagasaki exhibition | About | University of Stirling