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Jim Macaulay

Born January 1, 1923 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Died April 3, 2015 · aged 92

Jim Macaulay was a Scottish scriptwriter and animator. Early in his career, he worked on 35 mm commercials for Odeon Cinemas, and following the closure of Gaumont British Animation, he moved to Scotland. In 1950, he married Eunice Bagley. While working for the Glasgow-based production Templar Film Studios, he was appointed assistant to documentary filmmaker Hilary Harris, who was making Seawards t…

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The Underground Movie

The Underground Movie · 1972

The Underground Movie

Everyone has wondered what it would be like to dig right through to the other side of the Earth. This animated film takes the wonder a step further. Here the probe is accomplished with a machine as ingenious as any that have reached the moon. Dubbed 'Old Chucknose' and equipped with amazing gadgetry, it bores through every layer of the Earth's crust and centre. Perhaps it's not a blueprint of things to come, but it's plausible enough as observed in this cartoon.

Seawards the Great Ships

Seawards the Great Ships · 1960

Seawards the Great Ships

MovieDocumentary

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.

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The Underground Movie

The Underground Movie · 1972

The Underground Movie

Everyone has wondered what it would be like to dig right through to the other side of the Earth. This animated film takes the wonder a step further. Here the probe is accomplished with a machine as ingenious as any that have reached the moon. Dubbed 'Old Chucknose' and equipped with amazing gadgetry, it bores through every layer of the Earth's crust and centre. Perhaps it's not a blueprint of things to come, but it's plausible enough as observed in this cartoon.

(voice)

Seawards the Great Ships

Seawards the Great Ships · 1960

Seawards the Great Ships

MovieDocumentary

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.

Animation