This film by Ronald Pringle is amateur footage of snow-covered landscapes, an urban garden, Scottish wildlife and Ailsa Craig the volcanic island and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserve south of the Isle of Arran. The film opens on a snowy country road, a blue Ford Anglia comes round a corner, towards the camera. This then cuts to a coastal scene, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. On open moorland wild deer graze, wary of the camera. March 1964 and...

This film by Ronald Pringle is amateur footage of snow-covered landscapes, an urban garden, Scottish wildlife and Ailsa Craig the volcanic island and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserve south of the Isle of Arran. The film opens on a snowy country road, a blue Ford Anglia comes round a corner, towards the camera. This then cuts to a coastal scene, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. On open moorland wild deer graze, wary of the camera. March 1964 and footage of an urban garden, showing crocuses in close up, sprouting rhubarb and bees on begonias. More extensive footage follows of deer on moorland. A sequence follows that shows rough seas at an unknown coastal resort. Waves lash the shore, the tide level looking particularly high, with small boats bobbing about on the water. The film cuts to a small boat (underxposed) heading towards the volcanic island and bird reserve at Ailsa Craig, an island just south of Arran. Extensive views follow of seabirds nesting on a cliff face. A view from the mainland shows the looming presence of Ailsa Craig in the distance. More views follow on board a boat heading towards the island. The boat approaches a jetty then the film cuts showing the 12 metre high ruins of the 3 storey Ailsa Castle that stands on the eastern side of the island which was built in the late 1500s by the Hamilton Family to protect the island from King Felipe II of Spain. More views follow of cliffs from the boat. The boats skirts the island with close ups of cliff nest sites. Moorland and mountain scenes follow including views of a young eagle (?) on a nest. Short sections show a mountain stream, a jet airplane and finally long close up sequences of the eagle's head, which end the film.