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David McLean

Amazing archive film captures Glasgow and the Clyde in 1942

Captured during the Second World War, it captures a priceless glimpse of a Glasgow that is fast fading from living memory.

Directed by Jimmy Rogers for the Ministry of Interior, the 1942 film Song of the Clyde zones in on the source of Glasgow 'might waterway' from its source at Elvanfoot, to its mouth at the Firth of Clyde.

While it was billed as being a tribute to the Clyde, the film also served as a moving postcard of wartime Glasgow in a bid to boost British morale and showed that it was very much business as usual in Scotland's largest city.

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