SKIMSTERS, the
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Title: SKIMSTERS, the
Reference number: 2668
Date: 1959
Director: filmed by Harry Birrell
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 10.32 mins
Description:
Waterskiers on Loch Earn, practising and taking part in Loch Earn Water Skiing championships.
Winner of the Marshall Quaich award at the 1959 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.
Amateur film that gained 4 stars in the Amateur Cine World Ten Best competition.
Credits:
New Century Orchestra conducted by Sydney Torch
This film gained 4 stars in the Amateur Cine World ten best competition 1959 .
Shotlist: credits (0.40) shot of loch, and its banks (0.58) shots of a man water-skiing (1.22) gvs Loch Earn Water Ski Club members water skiing (2.01) c/u water skis, boat and other equipment (2.22) gvs water skiers practicing (4.26) c/u of different types of water skis (4.51) gvs water skiers practicing on Loch Earn, tracking shots from skier's boat (6.07) gvs street scenes as people arrive to take part in Loch Earn Water Ski championships (6.31) Ewan Cameron, founder of LEWSC; gvs competitors skiing over ramp (7.13) gvs slalom (7.48) trick sking (8.25) jumping event (9.16) ski club members slalom and jump over Loch Earn (10.58)