Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 21694 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| GLASGOW STUDENT RAG 1966-68 | 1966-1968 | 1966-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 6 min 18 sec Credits: Individual: Ronald Pringle Genre: Amateur Subject: Education |
| Summary This film taken by filmmaker Ronald Pringle in Glasgow, shows the colourful student tradition of the rag week. Where students in the city entertain and possibly alarm citizens into parting wit their money for good causes. |
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Description
This film taken by filmmaker Ronald Pringle in Glasgow, shows the colourful student tradition of the rag week. Where students in the city entertain and possibly alarm citizens into parting wit their money for good causes.
The film opens to wild events in the streets of Glasgow as students engage in their rag week.
Students ride on the back of lorries and motor bikes through the streets of Glasgow shaking collections tins, wearing outrageous fancy dress costumes in order to attract...
This film taken by filmmaker Ronald Pringle in Glasgow, shows the colourful student tradition of the rag week. Where students in the city entertain and possibly alarm citizens into parting wit their money for good causes.
The film opens to wild events in the streets of Glasgow as students engage in their rag week.
Students ride on the back of lorries and motor bikes through the streets of Glasgow shaking collections tins, wearing outrageous fancy dress costumes in order to attract attention, there's also general merry making and dancing in the streets.
One decorated float has the contraceptive pill as its theme. By-passers take photo's of the parades and of the students in their costumes. One costume is a fairly accurate rendition of a Dalek from the Dr Who TV series. The public start to put money in the tins being proffered by the students. General views follow of students dancing in the street.
The film ends with two students who make an appearance in Wild West costumes and on horseback!
Context
The annual RAG time shakedown
Get your freak on with the students at Glasgow’s RAG Weeks in the 1960s.
It’s shakedown time in Glasgow as a brazen rabble of roving, can-rattling youth in costume ambush citizens at the student Rag Week in the 1960s. A typically supercharged Dalek menaces the filmmaker himself. First up, a riotous parade of topical floats celebrates the Pill (newly available to unmarried women), Elvis Presley’s film ‘Roustabout’, and Ygorra, Glasgow University’s satirical rag...
The annual RAG time shakedown
Get your freak on with the students at Glasgow’s RAG Weeks in the 1960s. It’s shakedown time in Glasgow as a brazen rabble of roving, can-rattling youth in costume ambush citizens at the student Rag Week in the 1960s. A typically supercharged Dalek menaces the filmmaker himself. First up, a riotous parade of topical floats celebrates the Pill (newly available to unmarried women), Elvis Presley’s film ‘Roustabout’, and Ygorra, Glasgow University’s satirical rag mag, sold in conjunction with the Charities Week appeal. The Glasgow Student’s Charities Appeal Committee began to publish the annual magazine Ygorra in 1922. The title originates from the phrase “you’ve got to” in the Glaswegian vernacular, and was used in a witty slogan devised each year to encourage people to hand over money. The example decorating a float in this amateur film is “Ygorra Hans Fruppens or else”. Student complaints about the racism and sexism of the ‘rag mags’ and performances increased in the 1970s and 80s, as the undergraduate community became more diverse and challenged the stereotypes, leading to attempts to ban Ygorra. It is certainly disturbing to see students dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members on the streets of Glasgow in these 60s festivities. |
