A fascinating video showing the journey from Edinburgh to Dornoch using the old A9 in the 1960s has resurfaced online and shows the Forth Bridges in all their spectacular glory in a bygone era.
The film which was created by the Picture House and recently uploaded to YouTube by the Thurso Archives was captured using an eight mm camera.
Edinburgh Castle appears as the first shot as a car drives down Princes Street - something that drivers have been unable to do for a number of decades now.
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The next shot shows the car on approach to the Forth Road Bridge which opened in 1964.
It was the longest suspension bridge of its kind in the world outside of the US when it first opened to commuters travelling between Queensferry and Fife.
The person shooting the footage takes shots crossing over the bridge so that the viewer can experience sights of the Forth Bridge - in the video it appears as though the historic bridge is a more metallic blue colour than the red that we are used to seeing today. The cars and other vehicles that appear in the footage all look positively vintage and from a whole other era.
Pedestrians can be seen in clothing from the time walking along the pathway across the bridge in the direction of Fife as the camera passes them by.
The camera then pans back to show the road ahead on the bridge which appears to be eerily quiet for today's standards but it would have been the norm in the 1960s to see fewer cars on the roads.
It also appears as though an old school ambulance passes the motorist and camera on the right hand lane as they are crossing the bridge.
Images of Rosyth and the Firth of Forth are then visible as the camera tries to capture all of the natural beauty of the crossing within the film.
The film then proceeds to travel further north as it showcases the natural beauty of Scotland and later the Kessock Ferry at Inverness.
You can watch the video in full here.
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