Tap o’ the Toon Tales

The Whithorn Trust

Tap o’ the Toon Tales is an oral history project aiming to create an understanding of past memories from the residents from the south end of Whithorn, both today and through the 1950s – 1970s social housing schemes.

This community project acts as a time-capsule documentary, full of interviews and archive materials. While filming this, we worked alongside a group of young people with Whithorn Youth Group, teaching them documentary techniques, such as interviewing and directing.

By editing still images and old archive footage, alongside a voice over, we were able to create an understanding of the memories shared by residents and an accessible form of telling these stories.

Find out more about the Tap o’ the Toon on The Whithorn Trust website.

Hear from the client:

“The Whithorn Trust has worked with Urbancroft Films on projects since 2013, ranging from a community consultation and mapping exercise to an award-winning ‘Dig TV’ project for young people documenting a live excavation and an oral history project interviewing people from an underrepresented area of our town. They have also produced marketing materials for the Whithorn Way, using drone footage to fly through the long-distance walking route and its monuments and our digital ticket.

As a small charity, we often work to tight budgets and deadlines dictated by our funding, but Urbancroft has always delivered on time and has been flexible about matching activities to our budgets. Alongside film delivery, Urbancroft have also connected us with partners in other digital media, like VR content creation, which is new to us and where we needed expert advice. Our projects have varied from one-day filming events to embedded work within hard-to-reach communities. Our experience has always been excellent across the range of projects and scales. We’re always going back to Urbancroft, whether that is just with ideas which take shape as a result of discussion or with a fully formed and funded project.”