Why this archive is for sale
Why this archive is for sale
Why this archive is for sale is because Carney Heritage Productions Ltd is a one man business and I cannot guarantee that this Scottish heritage legacy can be saved for posterity. I cannot provide the archive the perpetual mass exposure that a leading collection can facilitate. Because this is the reality that I face I therefore, for the long term preservation of and access to the archive, put my unique, award winning, authentic and validated archive on the market.
The ideal new owner for the archive to be located is within a world renowned organisation for Scottish heritage or world ethnology. Such an organisation can save it for posterity and provide access to diverse users which I cannot facilitate.
As all the clips are digitised and linked to a searchable data base they are in the ideal format for utility and monetisation by such a new owner to optimise.
We supply you above with a listing of all our clips and thumbnails showing the topics and scope of our award winning world distributed footage. Our clips are authentic and unique digital films about Scotland’s past featuring the ordinary people their life and work from the late 1800s to the present day. No other heritage archive of this type is available any where in the world.
View our latest digital downloads Scottish Heritage clips here at our SHOP
Introduction
This unique film archive described here relates to rural life in Aberdeenshire and Scotland. You will find a complete PDF file listing, description and duration of each of our 2537 digitised clips within this web section. You will also find within this web section thumbnails and clip titles of all our archive footage. If you wish to find out more about the archive you can contact Don at info@scottishheritage.co.uk
Our archive brings the past alive for the first time through 21 century technology
Content
Our archive is unique in many ways and has already made an impact on promoting Scottish heritage, creating a cultural picture of Scotland. It is being used for dementia health care therapy accessible 24/7 world wide. Our archive consists of 2,537 clips to date. We continually add to this number. This widely used archive was in 1989 by myself Dr Don Carney from Aberdeenshire in Scotland. My motivation for creating this new archive was pride in and for my Scottish ancestors and all they the ordinary people have given us all. The archive to date contains 530 hours of unique footage about how the ordinary people lived and worked. Although the footage was filmed in Aberdeenshire it is representative of life and work of the ordinary persons story world wide. We all share a common sense of identity. The archive to date has proved this because we have retailed our footage to 13 countries. The time scale that our footage captures is from the late 1800s to today.
Farming in the hairst field 1930s
Farming in the hairst field 2025
Utility to date
Our authentic clips and knowledge of oor heritage has featured in many TV appearances locally, nationally and internationally. I have also presented many academic papers about our archive to national and international audiences. For my innovatory work in this field of scholarly research I have been awarded with the first PhD of its kind in the world featuring the capture of Scottish heritage on film and utilising the Scots language and the Doric dialect. Through business sponsorship some of our clips have been made available as validated educational resources for every Scottish school. This has been facilitated through Historic Environment Scotland’s educational portal. We have retailed our clips to thirteen countries world wide. Our latest diversification with our clips is the provision for the first time in the world of reminiscence film clips for the care provision for alzheimer’s and dementia accessible 24/7 .
Our brand is a strong one with products to suit many social requirements. In 1989 when I started to create this archive I would never have envisaged that the ordinary persons life and work would have serviced so many different contemporary audiences. For this unpredictable success in the past the future for the archive cannot be predicted also, but offers new and great future opportunities for other uses many as yet have not even been identified. Its future is bright and has no end point.
The Doric dialect
The commentary and the 4300 respondents narrative is predominantly done in the Doric dialect of Aberdeenshire. This dialect can be easily understood by any English speaker. The clips are an authentic capture of how our ancestors lived and worked. There are no actors used in the clips. Don features the ordinary people telling their story their way. Showing first hand how the past used to be for them and their ancestors.
Who may be interested in this archive?
The ordinary person can utilise the clips to allow them to connect with their past. Our Scottish ancestors travelled all over the world taking their culture with them. For any Scottish people living abroad who had Scottish ancestors these clips represent how their ancestors lived and worked and can take the viewer closer to their ancestral roots and life style. Our clips can allow them to ” Get to know their Scottish ancestors a bit better” this strap line is what we call our heritage collection of digital downloads. Our dementia and alzheimer digital downloads are called “A picture house of MY past memories”
Visitor attractions
Todays technology savvy tourist expect the dynamic of film to portray Scottish heritage to provide them with the autonomy when visiting any tourist organisation. Clips can easily be listed for menu self selection and individualised display as all the clips are digitised ready for immediate access and showing. It is simple to have the commentary in any language of the world to suit your/ or your visitor requirements.
Academics and researchers
This group can utilise these clips as unique primary resources in the study of linguistics, ethnology, heritage, family history, ancestral tourism, new dementia reminiscence therapy and culture. The clips of Scottish culture can be compared to clips recorded anywhere else in the world which will enable the academic and the researcher to draw striking comparisons and similarities between ordinary peoples lives the world over.
Educationalists from School to Universities can utilise our clips
School education
School education can also benefit from the clips as clips are already made available to every Scottish school through educational networks in place. All clips supplied to schools meet the requirement of the Curriculum for Excellence and allows teachers to meet their statutory and professional obligations in class.
Museums, libraries and art organisations
These organisations can also utilise the clips as part of their digitised provision. In this way they can build capacity and reach new audiences who wish to access and consume heritage/culture 24/7. The digitised clips facilitate this contemporary requirement.
Dementia and Alzheimer organisations and people living with these conditions can use our clips.
People living with dementia and Alzheimer’s can utilise the clips as reminiscence therapy. This is a new dementia therapy and is accessible 24/7 this makes it a world first in dementia care. The clips enable people with dementia and Alzheimer’s to find the places where their memories hide. Our intervention also provides the carer with respite from the ravages of dementia. The format of our clips enables people with dementia to relate to a past time in their lives, and takes them back to their old self.
Organisations who specialise in ethnology archives
Any organisation that has as their main policy the study and preservation of Scottish ethnology and wish to distribute our materiel to all that are interested in such unique footage. Since all our footage is digitised the opportunity and provision to monetise the footage is ready to do so now. The clips can be provided through the subscription model as another means of monetising the unique archive.
Proud of your Scottish heritage
If you are a proud Scots person and would also like to see our unique archive preserved as a legacy for future generations to enjoy you might wish to purchase the archive and donate it to an organisation of your choice or our choice.
Each area of the world has rich heritage. We have captured our Scottish heritage and showcased it to world audiences.
Authentic footage diversely endorsed
One of the first Ferguson tractors
There are no actors used in the clips but we feature the ordinary people telling their story their way and showing first hand how the past used to be for them and their ancestors. To date the archive footage has been used by and in visitor attractions, universities, researchers, museums and galleries. Our footage is made available for use as validated educational resources for every Scottish school. Our latest users are people with dementia and alzheimer’s who use our clips as reminiscence therapy. Our clips have received diverse and impressive endorsements
Endorsements
The clips have significant heritage and dementia care endorsements
Royal letter of support
In August 2023 we received a letter of support from a senior member of the Royal family for the work that we do with our archive.
Heritage endorsement
Emeritus Professor Henry Ellington of the Robert Gordon University and the person tasked with writing the book which was published in 2002, under the title ‘The Robert Gordon University – A History’ has made the following statement about Don Carneys contribution, as a past academic at RGU, to our North East life.
“Indeed, the author would confirm that Don has probably done as much to promote and preserve knowledge and understanding of pre-1950’s NE rural life as Lewis Grassic Gibbon.”
Dementia and Alzheimer reminiscence therapy endorsement
Dr Ad— xxxxx GP and lifestyle medicine advocate
“Unfortunately despite a lot of advances, medical therapies do not help a great deal in Dementia. However I recently enjoyed meeting up with Dr Don Carney. I am fascinated by his non drug intervention featuring customised digital film clips and its potential to massively help people with dementia.
He uses digital film clips to document footages of family lived experiences and significant geographic locations linked to one’s family background. The clips can show how people’s ancestors worked the land, went to sea, contributed within their local communities, how they were educated, what religious faiths they might have had, the type of architecture which surrounded them, the dialect they spoke, the domestic technology which they enjoyed, how the family might have lived, their role in wartime, their environmental considerations and their sense of self sufficiency and relationships within their societies.
A walk down memory lane
Watching these videos brings back memories, making people feel happy and connected to their past. It’s like a special way to remember things, especially for those who may have trouble remembering on their own.
Bring photos of the past alive with the dynamic of our heritage films
His videos are like time machines, helping people, especially those with memory challenges like dementia, travel back to cherished moments.”
Impressive endorsements
Our archive footage and the diverse utility our clips have made to date impress many people. Any new owner will be buying something that has already proved its value for societies across the world. A great deal more can be done in the future with this unique archive of Scotland’s recent past.
Below is a portfolio of our main
offer for various customers
The heritage of your Scottish ancestors
Clips from our unique Scottish heritage film archive can show you how YOUR Scottish ancestors lived and worked. They will bring you closer to YOUR past and enable you to walk in your ancestors footsteps. Our unique clips capture content which relates from the late 1800s to the present day. The clips feature many aspects of life and work of the ordinary person. It is a new digital heritage resource which enjoys world distribution. Our clips can also be used within education and research about Scotland's past cultural identity.State of the art technologyWe use 21 century technology to capture edit and deliver our digital downloads. The clips can be accessed 24/7 on your iPhone , tablet, computer and can be shown on your smart tv.
Dementia Reminiscence Therapy
We have seen for our selves the devastating impact dementia and alzheimer's has on families. As a result, we as award-winning Scottish heritage film makers recognised the power our clips, about the past, can have for people living with dementia and alzheimer's. We have over three years researched developed and perfected a library of validated dementia reminiscence clips called "A picture house of MY past memories".
These clips find the places where past memories hide for people living with dementia. They help them reconnect with their past and who they are. This provides hope and support 24/7 and brings some respite to the carers also from the continual challenges of dementia and alzheimer's.
The dynamic of film for academic and scholarly inputs and visitor interpretation
Our Scottish Heritage film archive clips can be used within all types of academic research and scholarly activity. Academia now has access to a new dynamic film archive hitherto not available by any other provider. This can develop new and exciting learning opportunitiesThey can also be used by any visitor attraction. They can bring enjoyment, entertainment and authentic Scottish heritage to your visitor experience.
We offer a menu of choice with our clips. We can have any language of the world on the clips to appeal to any visitor. We can bring to life your static displays and help you provide new inputs for returning visitors to enjoy. Our clips can be used within hand held devices offering the visitor a selection of clips that are of interest to them.
Your companies story is worth capturing on film
Part of what Carney Heritage Productions offer companies in the Aberdeenshire area is to record their company history on film. This can enhance your website and contribute to more effective marketing. The story of your business developments and success is a story worth telling, remembering and recording. This can form part of your business archive but more importantly can be used to inform your customers of what you do and how you do it. All helping you to maintain and grow sales. Short clips can be used in presentations to customers and other stakeholders in a dynamic manner and will showcase your business values, offer and uniqueness much better that words alone.