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This was the final film to be produced by the first Films of Scotland Committee before it stood down. Dundee was premiered at a meeting of the British Association in Dundee on 3 September 1939, the screening being abandoned midway though due to the declaration of war with Germany. The film was never released.
The jute trade was one of Dundee's foremost industries for a period stretching from the 1830s to the 1950s. Industrialists in Dundee were the first to realise jute's potential as a material for cheap cloth in the early 19th century, and as demand increased, the industry expanded, until the city's jute industry became the world's largest. One of the three 'J's in the famous description of the industrial heritage of Dundee 'jute, jam and journalism'.
Kenneth Broom
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