The soundtrack for the film is 'Danse Macabre' by Camille Saint-Saëns.

 

This short promo promotes the vision of digitising the collections of The National Library of Wales.

 

Opening caption: ‘Every year tens of thousands of people visit The National Library of Wales’.

Side profile of the front of the Library building followed by a shot of the front of the building from afar.

The welcome slate at the front of the Library with the words ‘Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/The National Library of Wales, Croeso/Welcome, Braint pob Gwybodaeth’.

 

Blurred shot of part of the revolving door at the front of the Library then we see people entering the Library through the revolving door.

Camera shot looking up from the main corridor to the gallery and ceiling above.

A woman walking up the stairs of the Library Atrium.

Caption: ‘They come to learn’ and we see a young woman looking at the contents of an exhibition case.

Man and woman looking at the exhibition in Gregynog Gallery.

Man looking at the contents of a glass exhibition case.

 

Caption: ‘To discover’ and a woman sitting in front of a computer with her back towards us, we then see a man in front of a computer opposite the woman.

A young girl reading a manuscript.

The gallery of the North Reading Room.

Caption: ‘To connect to our past’ and we see the hand of a man looking through the pages of a book.

Readers sitting by tables in the North Reading Room.

Caption: ‘They…come to us’.

 

Corridor with mobile shelves to the right and left. In the distance, we see a man walking down the corridor.

We see a pair of hands in white gloves taking a book off a shelf.

Caption: ‘But what if we could come to them..…and to you?’

Person walking towards us down a corridor filled with light.

 

A young man sat in front of a laptop computer with a window behind him. Through the window we see the Chrysler Building lit up at night.

We see the young man turning the navigation button on his laptop.

We see the wheels of a mobile shelf turn in the same way, and the caption: ‘The entire documented history of our nation’.

The rolling shelf opens and a row of books appears.

We see the young man beckoning the books to come towards him with his hand.

The book starts to come off the shelf of its own accord.

Caption: ‘Digitised’.

We see a green book fly off the shelf.

 

A schoolgirl lying on a carpet drawing a picture with palm trees in the background.

Looking down from above at the schoolgirl with the caption: ‘Online’.

Close-up of the schoolgirl beckoning something towards her with her hand.

We see a picture move of its own accord off a rack and the caption: ‘Available to all of us’.

We see a picture in the forefront and a corridor in the background.

We see the original picture flying past.

 

A middle aged woman walking in grass talking on her mobile phone and Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background.

The middle-aged woman turns to look towards us with the caption: ‘Anytime. Anywhere’ and beckons something towards her.

A door of a cell starts to open, then the door opens further and a film reel flies out.

Several books flying towards us down a corridor of shelved books.

We see books and pictures flying out of the Council Chamber and down the corridor and down another corridor of disks.

 

A young woman with a book in her hand crosses the corridor with the books flying past her.

We see the books in the North Reading Room flying past the statue of Sir John Williams.

We see the books flying up one of the spiral staircases to the gallery above and past a chandelier.

The books fly past the outside of the Drwm and through the Atrium, down the main corridor with more books added all the time.

Past the Sir Kyffin Williams picture with flashing lights.

The books’ speed of flight increases down the corridor towards the revolving door.

 

We see the revolving door turn at speed with flashing lights.

Animated fireworks are seen rising from the front of the Library.

The National Library of Wales logo and the branding: ‘One of the great libraries of the world’.

Caption: ‘Please support our ambition’.

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End Credits: ‘With thanks to, The Staff and Readers of The National Library of Wales, Funding Matters Limited’.