This film is a mix of home movies and events filmed by amateur Ronald Pringle in Scotland, showing holiday destinations and a student rag week in Glasgow. The effects of the harsh winter of 1962 to 1963 are also captured in town and country. The film opens with a rainbow followed by a number of general views of locations including Glen Nevis, Skye. Spean Bridge and Findhorn. A student Rag Day filmed in Glasgow in 1962 shows students in fancy dress on the streets as, armed with collection...

This film is a mix of home movies and events filmed by amateur Ronald Pringle in Scotland, showing holiday destinations and a student rag week in Glasgow. The effects of the harsh winter of 1962 to 1963 are also captured in town and country. The film opens with a rainbow followed by a number of general views of locations including Glen Nevis, Skye. Spean Bridge and Findhorn. A student Rag Day filmed in Glasgow in 1962 shows students in fancy dress on the streets as, armed with collection tins, they approach bemused members of the public for donations. The film cuts to general views of the countryside with frost on wild plants. A large pond or lake is iced over and two adults and a young boy slip and slide on the ice. Snow covered streets of Glasgow in 1962 with a double-decker bus displaying a destination board, which reads 'Rutherglen'. Boys skate on frozen ice at Rouken Glen country park near Glasgow followed by general views of snow covered country scenes. The film cuts back to a small parade of shops in a Glasgow suburb, followed by shots of clouds moving in fast motion across the sky. More holiday film follows, probbaly filmed in the Glen Coe area of Scotland. The family car, a brightly coloured Austin Metropolitan, features. Glasgow shows off its Christmas spirit with views of street illuminations. General views follow of adults and children out in the snow covered countryside, a frozen lake, and a free flowing river with snow covered hills in the background. Highland cattle stand in the snow. General views show snow covered roads against a backdrop of hills and mountains, cars sliding along roads and snow ploughs helping to clear snowdrifts. Note: The winter of 1962 to 1963 was the coldest for 200 years. The snow and severe cold lasted from just before Christmas 1962 to March 1963.