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James Clark, former pit boy turned preacher, worked as an evangelist in Scotland for the Scottish Colportage Society from the
mid 1940s until the late 1960s. Known affectionately as 'Uncle Jimmy', he always travelled alone, usually setting off in May for a summer tour around a particular region of Scotland. He documented such trips on 16mm film using anyone who was available to hold the camera while he preached. This title comes from a large collection of such films donated to the Scottish Screen Archive,
and shows James engaged in one of his seaside missions.
The Scottish Colportage Society is possibly the oldest society of its kind in the world. Founded in 1793 by a group of Edinburgh business men, first as a tract distributing centre, it developed into a national institution. At one time it employed nearly 300 colporteurs, and virtually every parish in the country was visited by one of its men and his bag of
books.
Kenneth Broom
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