Johnny on the Run (Children’s Film Foundation)

The film opens with a panoramic shot of Edinburgh. The view over Princes Street Gardens to Princes Street from Edinburgh Castle with Frederick Street heading northward to the right.

The same view from Edinburgh Castle, taken in 2016. (SD)

Cut to Janek (Eugeniusz Chylek) as he runs home with a bag of laundry. Facing southward on Vennel in Edinburgh, Midlothian with properties of Keir Street to the top right.

John Penman returned to the location.

The young orphan turns a corner into the yard of the house where he is poorly looked after by Mrs. MacGregor. Brown’s Place off Vennel.

The same pathway captured by John Penman.

Janek is sent out with the baby to get shopping. The corner of Lauriston Place and Chalmers Street.

There are alterations to the right in John Penman's view.

Around a corner, a group of boys play football. This end of Chalmers Street has been taken over by the Lauriston Building, formerly part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and now a Community Hospital.

The boys attack Janek after he kicks the ball. Apart from the gradient, an unrecognisable Chalmers Street.

While Janek fights, the pram starts to roll down the hill. Chalmers Street facing the bend where Nightingale Way now starts.

The curve of the road is still apparent in John Penman's comparison.

Three girls give up their skipping game to join Janek and the boys as they chase the baby in the pram. Looking north on Chalmers Street where just the trees to the left now remain.

Startled people watch as the pram passes along the street. Blair Street, facing High Street with the chimneys of buildings on Cockburn Street in the centre right distance.

To avoid parked cars, John Penman moved into the centre of the road for this shot.

The pram continues uncontrollably downhill. Facing south on Blair Street.

A wider view of the same street taken by John Penman.

With Janek leading the way, the children are joined by men and women.

Mrs. MacGregor (Mona Washbourne) comes out of a shop to see her baby speed past.

Janek grabs the pram at the top of a flight of steps. The top of Vennel steps adjacent to the Town Wall.

When Mrs. MacGregor and the pursuing children catch up and crowd around the baby, Janek backs away. Vennel with Heriot Place in the left background.

Scolded by Mrs. MacGregor, Janek runs down the steps. Looking down Vennel to the junction of West Port and King’s Stables Road with Grassmarket.

Mrs. MacGregor and the others begin to descend towards the terrified boy. Looking up Vennel steps with buildings on Keir Street in the top background.

Trapped between the approaching crowd and a Policeman who appears at the foot of the steps, Janek dodges through a gateway. Facing the former Synagogue entrance on Vennel with Brown’s Place in the right background.

The youngster disappears across waste ground and climbs a wall. Looking towards Vennel and Brown’s Place from land at the rear of the Edinburgh College of Art. The area is now occupied by an extension to that building.

Over the wall, quiet back streets provide a clear escape route. West Bow in Edinburgh with the shadow of the West Bow Well to the top.

John Penman's wider shot shows more of West Bow Well.

Janek runs through a low passageway and out onto the busy streets of the city.

Slowing to a walk, Janek spots a travel agents. Princes Street with the frontage of Darling & Cos department store to the left. A similar view appears in 'Don't Bother to Knock' as well as 'Trainspotting'.

Lionel and Cynthia Sear took this from the kerb as of now but Princes Street pavement seems to have been widened. (RL)

Looking through the window, Janek reads a poster advertising Poland. Princes Street with Edinburgh Castle in the top right distance.

Looking up to the Castle from outside of BetFred! (A blind window so we couldn't go inside.) Such is Lionel and Cynthia's attention to detail. (RL)

Janek leaves the agency after finding that a ticket from Dundee to Danzig costs £17. Facing east on Princes Street with the since redesigned bow front of the University Club to the left.

Here Lionel and Cynthia are lined up with what must be the old kerb. (RL)

Realising that he can't afford the fare to his homeland, Janek climbs into the back of a lorry bound for Dundee. Princes Street with the tower of the North British Hotel, currently The Balmoral, and the Scott Monument in the left distance.

Lined up with the new kerb rather than the old. Lionel and Cynthia drew the line at removing the rubbish for us. (RL)

In a dark Dundee, Janek drops from the back of the lorry as it slows to take a corner. This looks more like a street in the south-east of England rather than a Scottish coastal city.

The lad runs along the street towards a house that 'Flash Harry' Fisher and 'Fingers' Brown are preparing to break into.

After the pair of burglars enlist Janek's help to enter the property, a Policeman approaches.

'Flash Harry' Fisher (Sydney Tafler) and 'Fingers' Brown (Michael Balfour) run from the scene with Janek.

The Officer blows his whistle as he pursues the thieves.

Evading capture, Fingers separates from Flash Harry who takes Janek and the two get a lift in a truck heading north.

The truck travels through the night. On the A85 alongside the River Earn in St. Fillans, Perthshire with the Drummond Arms Hotel visible in the centre distance.

Dee Melia provides this daylight view of the location.

After falling from the truck during a scuffle, Flash Harry and Janek discover a remote cottage where the Crofter allows them to stay the night..

As dawn breaks, Janek leaves the cottage before Flash Harry and the Crofter wake.

Running across the land, Janek comes upon a ruined castle. Finlarig Castle standing in Killin at the western end of Loch Tay in Perthshire.

Mark Craig found that the castle is hidden entirely by trees and drove past it twice along a little road just past the village cemetery. The trees around it are now even higher and more dense than back in the 1950s.

Later that morning, a group of Children head for the castle where they find the sleeping boy.

Janek introduces himself, explaining that his name means Johnny, and the children show him a village in the glen below the castle. Looking over Loch Earn in Perthshire with the buildings of St. Fillans to the bottom.

The children take Janek into the village where they live. The A85 passing through St. Fillans, facing the properties named Oakbank and Tigh-Na-Mar.

Mark Craig notes that the chimney pots have been replaced on the houses, otherwise the view is still the same without the flagpoles.

Janek looks at the happy children playing in the street. The A38 in St. Fillans with the house called Heartherlea to the centre.

To the right of the house with the new porch. Mark's view shows that one of the cottages was demolished several years ago. The site is now an overgrown patch of weeds with a blown down For Sale sign abandoned in the undergrowth.

Laughter fills the village while Janek follows his new friends home. St. Fillans, now part of Perth & Kinross, with Loch Earn to the left.

The white painted cottages are still white, but Mark Craig's shot shows that trees have grown significantly in the gardens between them, obscuring the adjoining houses from view.

The children arrive at the house where they live with the MacGregors and ask if Janek can stay with them. Facing the property named Neish in St. Fillans.

Mark took this picture of Neish, which is now totally obscured from the road by the trees in the garden. "My sister and I stopped in the village shop/cafe for a coffee and slice of cake and the guy working behind the counter told us that he had only been told about the film the week before we visited. Whilst we were talking to him and showing him the 1950s views from the film, another man came into the shop and mentioned that he lives in the old school house. He was well aware of the film and had it on DVD and explained that when he bought the school he found several decades old stills from the film which he now has on display."

The next day, on his way to the Police Station to enquire about Janek, Mr. MacIntyre stops when asked for a lift by one of his Neighbours. St. Fillans with Dundurn Parish church in the centre background.

In Mark Craig's view, Dundurn Parish Church is now obscured by trees.

Word spreads amongst the children about Mr. MacIntyre's visit to the police. Little Port Farm identified by Mark Craig.

Mark provides this image of the farm which is visible from the front of the school in Station Road and can be seen through the window in a later capture.

The rumour grows as it passes around the village. The jetty at the mouth of the River Earn in St. Fillans with the footbridge crossing to An t-Eilean and the War Memorial to the top left.

There are several wooden jetties on this part of the loch, all very close to each other. Mark Craig tells us that there's no way of knowing if this one has been replaced with a new one at the same location and in this comparison there is actually a wooden jetty submerged just below the water in the foreground. The wooden footbridge over the mouth of the River Earn has long since been replaced with a concrete one.

By the time the gossip ends, the story is that the Prime Minister himself is to be told of Janek's plight.

While the children are at lessons, Janek spots Sergeant Foster (Edward Forsyth) as he arrives at the MacIntyre's house. Mark Craig identifies this as taken from inside the school with Little Port Farm in the top distance.

A closer view of the distant building by Dee Melia.

Fearing he will be taken back to Edinburgh, Janek runs from the building before his new friends chase after him. In front of Ivycote, since renamed Kirklea, in St. Fillans.

Kirklea now has a modern front porch which would obscure this shot of its bay window had Mark been able to get closer to the building. The fence may still be inside the hedge in front of the house.

Mr. MacIntyre (Moultrie Kelsall) makes an excuse to take a photo of Janek for the police to circulate. On the roadway outside Neish in St. Fillans.

As Mark has already mentioned, the trees in the front garden of Neish totally obscure the house from view.

Soon after seeing Janek's picture in the news, Flash Harry and Fingers arrive in the village. One of the many jetties along the shore of Loch Earn in Perthshire.

The jetty at this location has been renewed as can be seen in Mark Craig's comparison.

The village children cheer as Janek gets ready to lead a paper chase as the 'hare'. Looking towards Neish across the Loch Side at St. Fillans.

Mark captured a similar view of Neish almost hidden by trees.

The chase gets under way and Janek runs into the countryside followed by the 'hounds'. At the corner of the A85 and the, now named, Manse Lane in St. Fillans.

Mark found taller bushes in the front gardens and modern kerbs containing the tarmac.

Fingers watches Flash Harry peer through a window of the school before the two are disturbed by returning pupils. The school on Station Road in St. Fillans located by Mark Craig.

The school is now a private house where the owner has built an extension to the left. Mark Craig provides the shot.

Mrs. MacGregor (Mona Washbourne) approaches Mrs. MacIntyre (Jean Anderson) and her husband after travelling from Edinburgh to collect Janek. The Loch Side in St. Fillans. The Four Seasons Hotel in the village was where The Beatles stayed during their British Tour in October 1964.

Playing Jean Anderson, Mark's sister stands on the same spot. There are now a few more trees obscuring views of the loch from this point.

Flash Harry carries on when Fingers stops to rub his aching feet while the pair are chasing Nita across fields.

Nita (Edna Wynn) calls to Janek when she sees him ahead. Perth Road in Crieff, Perthshire with the property named Ard Laggan to the right.

In Mark Craig's view, Ard Laggan has a new window and the old telegraph poles and lamp post have been replaced.

Hearing Nita behind him, Janek comes to a halt outside the church. Perth Road with St. Columba’s church filling the background.

Mark explains that the old St. Columba's Episcopal Church was demolished in 1986 after significant structural faults were found in the tower as the cost of restoration was too great. A modern single storey building is the replacement.

Flash Harry catches up with Nita and Janek. The gates to St. Columba’s church on Perth Road, Creiff.

The lovely wooden gates have long gone as Mark's shot shows, with even the replacement metal gates now hanging off their rusty hinges.

When Flash Harry locks the two children in the church tower, Nita climbs onto the roof. The top of St. Columba’s church tower.

Nita spots a police car in the distance. The view along the A85 Perth Road from the tower of St. Columba’s church.

Sergeant Foster tells the Police Inspector (Gordon McLeod) that he can hear the church bells ringing. Dollerie Terrace in Crieff, Perthshire.

The police car is turned around and the Officers head for the church to investigate. The junction of Perth Road, Dollerie Terrace and High Street.

Mark discovered that the corner building has lost its chimneys and gained some very oversized and obtrusive road signs while the buildings to the left with the tall chimneys have also been significantly "modernised" if not completely replaced.

Nita calls down from the church tower to the pursuing 'hounds'. Outside the building named Galvelbeg, opposite St. Columba’s church on Perth Road, Creiff.

There's very little change to the buildings in Mark Craig's comparison.

The children see Nita at the top of the tower before rushing into the building. The tower of St. Columba’s church on Perth Road.

The police arrive and Sergeant Foster takes Flash Harry into custody. St. Columba’s church was demolished in the 1980s and replaced with a more modest place of worship.

With his feet still aching, Fingers runs wearily towards the church only to be arrested, Looking northward on Perth Road in Crieff, Perthshire.

Back at the MacIntyre's house, Mrs. MacGregor is sent back to Edinburgh and all agree that Janek can stay. Neish on the Loch Side, St. Fillans in Perthshire.

A final shot of Neish captured by Mark Craig.