Type: Short film, released April 1907

Director: Arthur Gilbert

Producers: L. Gaumont and Company (UK)

Cast: Harry Lauder

Format: Silent, b&w, 35mm

Overview: Unknown

Availability: Unknown

Type: Short promotional film

Director: Charles Chaplin

Producer: Charles Chaplin

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Harry Lauder

Format: Silent, b&w, 35mm

Overview: Filmed at the Chaplin Studios, Los Angeles on January 22, 1917 -- this footage was intended as a promotional film to help raise funds for the "British War Loan Bond Appeal Drive" (in addition, Lauder established the Harry Lauder Million Pound Fund for wounded soldiers and sailors in September 1917). The film was never completed or released at the time.

Availability: See the "Chaplin Collection: Volume 2". Released on DVD, March 2004

Type: Feature film, unreleased

Director: Unknown

Producers: Page Film Company and Harry Lauder Productions

Cast: Harry Lauder, Effie Vallance, Harry Vallance, Glenbranter villagers

Format: Silent, b&w, 35mm, 20 minutes

Overview: This footage surfaced in the early 1970s as part of Harry Lauder's estate, along with a collection of other incomplete, unreleased film sequences produced around 1920. It's believed this was the first reel of an intended feature-length film to have been titled "All for the Sake of Mary" or "Mack's First Love". Why Lauder chose to abandon this project is unclear, although it doesn't appear to be a particularly inspired film (see comments below). One of the co-stars, Euphemie "Effie" Vallance, was Lady Lauder's sister, about 24 years of age at the time. 

Comments from the Scottish Screen Archive: A shepherd vies for the attentions of the fair Mary (a Scots bluebell) but is passed over for a rival following an unfortunate incident with a bull. Produced in and around the village of Glenbranter, Argyll. Very slow paced. Lauder totally unconvincing as the lovesick swain. The language of the couthy intertitles is hilarious.

Availability: The original footage is currently held for preservation by the National Film and Television Archive (UK). A copy (broadcast standard video master) is available for viewing on the premises of the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow (subject to technical inspection and copyright considerations).

Type: Feature film

Director: George Pearson

Producers: George Pearson, Welsh-Pearson Company (UK)

Studio: Paramount

Cast: Harry Lauder, Vera Voronina, Patrick Aherne, W. Cronin Wilson, Moore Marriot, Nancy Price, John Manners, Jerrold Robertshaw.

Format: Silent, 35mm, b&w

Overview: Filmed in 1927, Huntingtower was based on the 1922 spy novel by John Buchan (author of "39 Steps"). Harry Lauder plays the role of Dickson McCunn, a recently retired grocer who stumbles onto a plot to kidnap and murder a Russian princess.  McCunn finds himself reluctantly invovled, but not without the help of the Gorbals Diehards, a group of boys from the impoverished Gorbals area of Glasgow, selected for the film by director George Pearson. In the film, the princess, played by Russian actress Vera Voronina, is being held in Huntingtower, an isolated Scottish mansion. The film was shot in a variety of locations including Glasgow, Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, and Cricklewood Studios in London, where art director Walter Murton re-created the interior of a baronial Scottish castle on an 8,000 square-foot sound-stage.

At the time (1927) Harry Lauder held the record for being the highest paid comedian in silent films, reputedly earning 10,000 pounds to appear in "Huntingtower".

Availability: All copies are believed to be lost.

Type: Feature film

Director: George Pearson

Studio: Famous Players

Producers: Famous Players and Welsh-Pearson-Elder (Thomas Welsh, George Pearson, Thomas Coutts Elder)

Cast: Harry Lauder, Pat Aherne, Dodo Watts, Dorothy Boyd, Hugh E. Wright

Format: b&w, 75 minutes / filmed as a "silent" with songs (audio) added later.

Screenwriters: George Pearson, Hugh E. Wright, Patrick L. Mannock

Overview: "Auld Lang Syne" is largely a silent film with a few musical interludes. Harry Lauder plays Sandy McTavish, a dour, kilted Scottish man who pays a visit to his adult children who are living in London. Lauder believes his son (played by Pat Aherne) is a college student and that his daughter (Dodo Watts) is a nurse. The truth is, the son makes his living as a boxer and the daughter is actually a cabaret dancer. The humorous plot unfolds predictably, occasionally interspersed with Dodo Watts' dancing sequences and Harry Lauder's comical ballads.

Availability: Unknown

Type: "Short" film (one reel), c.1931

Director: George Pearson

Producer: Michael Balcon

Studio: MGM

Cast: Harry Lauder

Format: Sound, b&w

Includes the song "Nanny", composed by Harry Lauder and J. Howie Milligan and recorded by Harry for Victor Records circa 1915-16.  The film may also feature other Lauder songs including I Love a Lassie, Somebody's Waiting for Me, I Love to Be a Sailor, Roamin' in the Gloamin', Tobermory, The Safest O' The Family, She Is Ma Daisy, and Wee Hoose Mang the Heather. 

Availability: Unknown

Type: Short film

Director: George Pearson

Producer: Michael Balcon

Studio: MGM?
Cast: Harry Lauder

Format: Sound, b&w, 16mm, 19.32 minutes

Overview: Sir Harry Lauder on stage in full "Highland" costume performing some of his most popular songs and comic routines. Songs include I Love a Lassie, 0 Sang to Me the Auld Scotch Songs, Roamin' in the Gloamin' and Keep Right On To The End Of The Road.

Availability: This film is currently available for viewing on the premises of the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow (subject to technical inspection and copyright considerations).

Type: Feature film

Director: Alex Bryce

Studio: Fox

Producers: Fox, John Findlay

Screenwriter: Edward Dryhurst

Cinematographer: Jack Parker

Cast:
Harry Lauder - John MacGregor
Ruth Haven - Sheila MacGregor
Ethel Glendinning - ?
Bruce Seton - Donald Carson
Margaret Moffat - Maggie
Campbell Gullan - David
Vera Lennox - Flo
Tully Comber - Alan Cameron
Johnnie Schofield - ?

Format: Sound, b&w, 72 minutes

Overview: First released in the UK in 1936, "The End Of The Road" was re-released in the USA in 1940 under the title "Song Of The Road". Harry Lauder plays John Macgregor, a travelling song-and-dance man who manages to remain optimistic despite numerous setbacks, including the death of his beloved daughter and stage partner Jean (played by Ethel Glendinning). Thanks to Macgregor's intervention, some of the characters find "happy endings" ... however, taking a page from the Chaplin play-book, the film ends with a still-forlorn Macgregor walking towards the horizon alone.

Availability: Unknown

Type: Newsreel, 1913

Producer: Gaumont News

Format: Silent, b&w, 35mm, 2 minutes

Overview: Harry Lauder leaves for Liverpool from London's Euston Station. In Liverpool he boards the liner 'Lusitania' to the accompaniment of a Scottish pipe and drum band.

Availability: This film is currently available for viewing on the premises of the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow (subject to technical inspection and copyright considerations).

Type: Newsreel

Format: Silent

Overview: Sir Harry Lauder (well-known Scottish entertainer who sang 'Roaming' in the Gloamin'') attends a Scotish event - exact location unknown. Opens with CU of 2 cute children; a boy and girl dressed up in traditional Scottish costumes; tartan plaid sashes; etc. A man stands on right behind the kids. Next; shot of a parade: children riding on donkeys decorated with flowers between lines of spectators; also some men and women walk along--one lady wears a huge hat covered with flowers. Next some other entertainment in this festival day: crowd sitting on benches; and in FG; a Harry Lauder talking to a man wearing a shawl and a long apron; behind them sits another man in a kilt (holding bagpipes?) and more people on risers above. The first man walks up the steps; leaving the man in the shawl in FG. Harry has possibly awarded him a prize for something.

Type: Newsreel, 1922

Cast: Lady Nance Lauder, her brother "Mr. Vallance" (Tom?, Harry?).

Format: Silent, b&w, 35mm, 4.40 minutes

Overview: Lady Lauder and party arrive at Rothesay Bay by pleasure launch to judge a sand modelling competition.

Availability: This film is currently available for viewing on the premises of the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow (subject to technical inspection and copyright considerations).

Type: Newsreel / September 1922

Format: B&W, silent

Overview: "The location of these events unknown. Despite their unique record all Cunard Liners carry out on every voyage - Boat Drill for Crew and Passengers. Long shot of crew member running along the deck of a Cunard liner, they are wearing life jackets. Long shot of little girl with woolly hat having a very large life jacket fastened to her by a senior looking naval official. Long shot of the crew milling around on the deck of the ship. Intertitle reads: "Sir Harry Lauder dons his life jacket but will not discard his famous pipe.-"

Availability: May be previewed and/or purchased on the Pathe website.

Type: Newsreel, 1922

Format: Silent, b&w, 35mm, 2.50 minutes

Overview: Sir Harry Lauder entertains passengers on the deck of a Clyde steamer.

Availability: This film is currently available for viewing on the premises of the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow (subject to technical inspection and copyright considerations).

Type: Newsreel / September 1922

Format: B&W, silent

Overview: "The location of these events unknown. Despite their unique record all Cunard Liners carry out on every voyage - Boat Drill for Crew and Passengers. Long shot of crew member running along the deck of a Cunard liner, they are wearing life jackets. Long shot of little girl with woolly hat having a very large life jacket fastened to her by a senior looking naval official. Long shot of the crew milling around on the deck of the ship. Intertitle reads: "Sir Harry Lauder dons his life jacket but will not discard his famous pipe.-"

Availability: May be previewed and/or purchased on the Pathe website.

Type: Newsreel / circa 1926

Format: B&W, silent

Overview: "Sir Harry Lauder at home near Dunoon, Scotland. He walks in the grounds of his large house with Lady Lauder. He wears traditional Scottish dress. They walk in their garden and Sir Harry picks a flower and pins it to his wife's jumper. He gives her a peck on the cheek. He leads his wife down a slope to the bottom of the garden where he has a well."

Availability: May be previewed and/or purchased on the Pathe website.

Type: Newsreel / August, 1931

Format: B&W, silent

Overview: "Over a thousand guests of every walk of life - including Duke & Duchess of York - the baby princesses - Sir Harry Lauder attend Earl & Countess Strathmore's golden wedding festivities. Earl and Countess of Strathmore shaking hands with guests. Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) with Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Duchess of York (daughter of Earl Strathmore and later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother). Duchess of York with Princess Elizabeth. MS. Duke and Duchess with Princess Elizabeth. Princess shaking hands with Sir Harry Lauder. Princess Margaret in pram pushed by Duchess of York."

Availability: May be previewed and/or purchased on the Pathe website.

Type: Newsreel, c. 1932-35

Director: Unknown

Producer: Pennycook?

Cast: Harry Lauder

Format: Silent, b&w, 35mm, 12.09 minutes

Compilation reel of various events in Dundee, including bottling at James Robertson's factory, Harry Lauder leaving for an afternoon out, unemployed hikers arriving home after a holiday at Belmont, and unloading jute at Dundee harbour. The Harry Lauder footage shows Sir Harry leaving for an afternoon out during his visit to Dundee when he played at Victoria Theatre. Harry Lauder and two friends wave to the camera as they leave a house and enter a car.

Availability: This film is currently available for viewing on the premises of the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow (subject to technical inspection and copyright considerations).

Type: Newsreel, 1947

Format: Unknown

Overview: Sir Harry Lauder (at a dockside quay) accepts a gift from Boston to Scotland of 450 tons of food and clothing.

Availability: Unknown

Type: Newsreel

Format: Sound

Overview: Various shots of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady and wife of US President Franklin D Roosevelt, on a ship in Glasgow, Scotland, where she waves goodbye to the crews of ships going down to sea. She then goes ashore to take a tour around a Clydeside shipyard and meets 15,000 workers who have come out to welcome her in their lunchtime. M/S of veteran entertainer Sir Harry Lauder on the dais next to Mrs Roosevelt - he leads the enormous crowd in three cheers for Mrs Roosevelt.

Availability: Unknown

SCOTLANDS ROYAL WELCOME (aka SCOTLAND'S ROYAL WELCOME)  04/07/1946   Sound
Item title reads - Scotland's Royal Welcome.
M/S's of King George VI laying the memorial stone for Scottish Veterans' Garden City at Muirhouse. M/S as the King and Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) meet Sir Harry Lauder, he walks back down steps and smiles at camera. Then they meet Will Fyffe. M/S as the Queen waves.
L/S of the King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret Rose on the roof of Holyrood House, they watch pipers parade. The King and Queen arrive to attend the anniversary of the Scottish British Legion, the King is dressed in Highland costume. M/S of the two Princesses looking on, they walk along holding bouquets of flowers. C/U of the King and Queen in open military car, it drives off. Various shots of them standing in the back on the drive back to Holyrood house, followed by Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret standing in the back of their vehicle.



SCOTLANDS COWAL GATHERING (aka SCOTLAND'S COWAL GATHERING)  05/09/1946   Sound
Item title reads - Scotland's Cowal Gathering.
Dunoon, Scotland.
Various shots as young champion Highland dancers Maureen McMahon, Andy Campbell, Elizabeth Baker and Jeannie Montgomery perform traditional dance in kilts and Highland costume. M/S of rows of trophies in front of them. M/S of people accompanying them on the bagpipes. C/U of Sir Harry Lauder watching. A brawny Scotsman throws the hammer, M/S of the judges writing the scores. M/S as G. E. Mitchell tosses the caber. Various shots of the march past of 1000 pipers. The camera pans across officials watching. More good shots of the pipers marching.

AROUND BRITAIN - GLASGOW - AMERICA'S FOOD GIFT  05/02/1948   1420.33 
Food ship arrives to Glasgow from America.
SOUND
Title reads: "GLASGOW".
Glasgow, Scotland.
Dr Edith Summerskill coming down gangway. Sir Harry Lauder with dock workers. The two are here to celebrate the arrival of the shipload of food from America - gift to Scotland. Dock workers unload the ship for free. Close up shot of Harry Lauder cheering. Ship with banner, panning to unloading. Boxes of food being unloaded off the ship. Pipers on the quayside.



HARRY LAUDER ( aka HARRY LAUDER PRESENTS PRIZES )     212.34 
Sir Harry Lauder presents the prizes at the Highland Games.
SILENT
Dunoon, Scotland.
Intertitle: "SIR HARRY LAUDER presents prizes at the famous Highland Gathering, where pick of Scotland's athletes contend in National games".
M/S of three men in tweeds and a man in a tam-o'-shanter and kilt, they are standing in the middle of a field looking at the camera. C/U of three of the men, the kilted man is puffing away at a pipe, he then lights the other men's cigars. L/S of a shot-putter, he throws the heavy ball dangerously near to the camera. M/S of the shot-putter preparing to throw another ball, several men in tweed watch and mark down the results. More shots of shot-putters from different angles.
M/S of little girls in kilts doing a Highland dancing on a raised stage, a piper accompanies them. M/S of the man in the tam-o'-shanter and kilt ( Harry Lauder ) giving a speech to the spectators of the games. M/S of Harry watching as a smartly dressed woman hand a large trophy to a man in Highland costume. M/S of a man in flat cap giving a speech and another trophy being awarded.
M/S of a man tossing the caber. M/S of a troop of children in kilts doing Highland dancing.



SIR HARRY COMES TO THE END OF THE ROAD  06/03/1950   1456.06 
Funeral of Scottish musical star Sir Harry Lauder.
SOUND
Full title reads: "Sir Harry Comes To The End Of The Road".
Hamilton, Scotland. Funeral of Scottish musical star Sir Harry Lauder.
GV Lauder Hall. Side view Lauder Hall.
GV Funeral procession coming along road on way to cemetery, watched by crowd.
CU old woman in crowd. BV funeral procession entering cemetery. CU Old women in crowd.
SV Pallbearers carrying coffin to graveside. CU Women watching. SV Pall- bearers placing coffin on top of grave.
SV Mourners walking to graveside, headed by Lauder's sister. CU Lauder's sister throwing dirt into grave.
CU Inscription on tombstone - 'Erected by Harry Lauder to the Memory of My Dear Mother'.
LV People looking at masses of flowers. CU Wreath with inscription - 'In grateful remembrance of a grand life's work, from Mr and Mrs Churchill.'
SV Men and women walking past graveside, looking at flowers.
(Orig.Neg.)



Selected Originals - FUNERAL OF SIR HARRY LAUDER     1456.10 
Material relating to newsreel story 'Sir Harry Comes To The End Of The Road' - 50/19
MUTE
Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story 'Sir Harry Comes To The End Of The Road' - 50/19
Material for newsreel story - extra shots.
Hamilton, Scotland.
VS Lauder Hall, Sir Harry's home.
VS Funeral cars driving through crowd-lined street of Hamilton.
MS Pallbearers carrying coffin to grave. MS Lauder's sister arriving with others. MS Coffin being lowered into grave. MS Sir Harry's sister kneeling before grave and getting up. LS of scene at cemetery. MS People walking past piles of flowers. MS People looking at flowers. CU People walking past flowers. MS Gravediggers shovelling earth in on top of coffin. (2 shots). MS Earth being smoothed over coffin.
(Mute.Orig.Neg.)


(FUNERAL OF WILL FYFFE)  22/12/1947   1199.38 
Funeral of Scottish Comedian Will Fyffe attracts large crowds in Glasgow.
SOUND
CU Cedric Baynes Pathe Cameraman at work. (Linking shot).
St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, Scotland. Funeral of comedian Will Fyffe.
MS the coffin being borne out of the Cathedral.
MS Spectators watching
CU the coffin being loaded onto the hearse.
CU some of the many wreaths.
MS the hearse, containing the coffin, driving off.
MS Harry Gordon, Will Fyffe's partner in pantomime chatting to Sir Harry Lauder
CU Side face of Arthur Prince, the representative of the Order of Water Rats, chatting to two women.
CU the trio of Forsythe, Addie Seamon and Farrel.
LS the pipers, playing a lament precede the hearse which bears the body to its last resting place.


HAPPY AND HOMELY! (aka THE BRAEMAR GATHERING - IN THE HEART OF THE HIGHLANDS) and (aka HOMELY PICTURES - SCOUTS AT WINDSOR - ROYAL CORONATION GROUPS - THEIR MAJESTIES ON HOLIDAY)  1930 - 1939   472.05 
Dupe sections of Various Newsreel items featuring the Duke and Duchess of York.
MUTE
Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknown.
Title reads: "Glamis Castle - Happy & Homely! - Over thousand guests of every walk of life - including Duke & Duchess of York - the baby princesses - & Sir Harry Lauder attend Earl & Countess Strathmore's golden wedding festivities." - dupe of 31/66
Glamis Castle, Scotland. Earl and Countess of Strathmore shaking hands with guests. Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) with Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Duchess of York (daughter of Earl Strathmore and later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother). Duchess of York with Princess Elizabeth. MS. Duke and Duchess with Princess Elizabeth. Princess shaking hands with Sir Harry Lauder. Princess Margaret in pram pushed by Duchess of York. 31/66 was released in August 1931.
Full title reads: "Scotland. The Braemar Gathering. The Duke & Duchess of York - and the little Princesses - attend most famous of all Highland Games. Bad weather prevented the King & Queen attending." - dupe of 32/73
Braemar, Scotland. Prince Albert, Duke of York and Duchess of York get out of a car. With them is Princess Elizabeth. A man steps forward with an umbrella to protect them from the rain. The are greeted by various Highland dignitaries. The Duke and several of the other men are wearing kilts. They walk into a building. A nanny carries Princess Margaret Rose from the car. A bagpipe band march past a covered saluting base. The men following them are carrying halberds. Shots of the crowds, most of whom are carrying umbrellas. The band and men march around the arena. More highland types march around the arena - some athletics events are happening in the middle. Man in a kilt shows off his skills at caber tossing. 32/73 was released in September 1932.
Full title reads: "Braemar - In The Heart of The Highlands - The King and Queen attend the most famous of all Scottish "Gathering" for first time for four years." - dupe section of 33/73. King George V and Queen Mary get out of carriage, they are accompanied by Princess Elizabeth and the Duke and Duchess of York. The Royal Party are greeted by local dignitaries. 33/73 was released in September 1933.
Footage of a Royal wedding - Prince George, Duke of Kent to Princess Marina of Greece.
Title reads: "Pathe Gazette has the honour to present homely pictures, taken by our own cameramen, Their Majesties The King & Queen, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose." - dupe of 37/33. Buckingham Palace, London. Very good informal pictures of the Royal family in the Palace grounds, feeding the ducks, and posing for the King using a cine camera. Features King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother), Prince Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret. They feed the ducks, play with their corgi dogs. The King films them with his Cine camera. 37/33 released April 1937.
Title reads: "Scouts at Windsor March past the King." - dupe of 37/34. St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Gathering of Boy Scouts in front of Chapel. Chief Scout Robert Baden-Powell raises his hat. Scouts march past Royal party, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and the two princesses. Baden-Powell presents some scouts to the Royals. Scouts march out of Windsor. 37/34 released April 1937.
Title reads: "Royal Coronation Groups"- From May 1937. Shots of Royal Family in their coronation robes posed for the camera.
Title reads: "Olympia" - King and Queen with the little princesses attend Royal Tournament at Olympia.
Various shots of Trooping of the Colour - Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and the Princesses. Nice shot of a Pathe cameraman. King George saluted.
Title reads: "Buckingham Palace" Various shots of a Garden party at the Palace.
King, Queen and Princesses get of train and are greeted by dignitaries. They are driven away in carriage They attend a military march past in Scotland.
Title reads: "Their Majesties on Holiday". The Princesses and their parents get out of a car in Scotland and are greeted by dignitaries. Elizabeth appears very chatty.