This Tool Kit presents all the resources you need to get started on your short film about Cutty Sark. It’s up to you to decide which visual and audio elements to use – our only mandatory requirement is for you to base your film on one of the four stories we have provided. Start downloading and be inspired!

This story traces the history of the famous tea clipper - that first set sail in 1869, from which Cutty Sark Whisky takes its name. Condense and recreate the colourful history of the ship in any form you choose.

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Tales of The Loch Ness recalls the period in the early 1970’s when claimed sightings of the Loch Ness Monster hit a fever pitch. Cutty Sark offered a cool million to anyone who could capture ‘Nessie’ alive and prove its existence – and then wondered what would happen if Nessie was indeed real.

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Tam O’ Shanter is the poem by Robert Burns that was the inspiration behind the name of the clipper, which in turn was the inspiration for the name of the whisky. What’s it about? A drunken peddler who ends up in the company of a coven of witches, one of them sporting a… you guessed it… a ‘cutty sark’ (that is a short shirt to you and me).

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The Real McCoy – ever wonder how this phrase was coined? Well wonder no longer, as Cutty Sark played a part in it, thanks to Captain William McCoy ‘a bootlegger of proven integrity’, who defied the American prohibition to deliver Cutty Sark whisky to thirsty Americans who longed for an authentic drink.

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