Skiers and pony-trekkers, golfers, fly fishermen and rock climbers. Sea scenes with title superimposed. Laboratories of Aberdeen's Soil Research Institute. Two farmers checking the barley in a field. Combine harvester at work. Aberdeen Angus cattle. Technicians and students at work in a lab, fishing boats heading out to sea. Fishermen at work on boat. Fishing boat arriving at harbour (possibly Aberdeen), fish is unloaded from boats into barrels, fishwives checking and gutting fish. Fish being dyed and smoked. Shot of a woollen jumper being pressed. Engineers working with precision machines. Villages and towns in North-East of Scotland, with shots of children playing football in street and crossing at a zebra crossing. ext. King's College, Aberdeen.