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Title: ONE FINE DAY

Reference number: 2678

Date: 1956 - 1957

Director: [filmed by teachers of Dumfries Academy]

Sponsor: [ Dumfries Academy]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 29.38 mins

Description: One of a series of films made about life in Dumfries Academy 1955-1978, this film was made in the academic year 1956 - 1957. Includes the normal events of the year and also a visit from the X-ray survey van, during an anti-tuberculosis campaign. See also ref. 2679 "[DUMFRIES ACADEMY 1969 - 1970]".

Credits: ph. B.F.D. Harris, W.R. McGuffog, and others

Shotlist: [bw] Title (0.12) c/u clock (0.21) school children walk off bus and arrive at school on foot; teacher drives up in car (0.45) children file up stair case; ms children file through (2.10) exts. X-Ray survey unit van, and sign "Dumfriesshire Community Survey X-Ray Here"; children walk in one by one, pan along queue (1.31) Examination in Progress (1.34) gvs older children sitting an exam, c/u writing hand (2.11) ints. Art Class, children paint with water colours at their desks (2.39) c/us children writing at their desks; ms diagram of India entitled "Three Money Crops"; c/u child copying drawing into a jotter (3.27) gvs class, mostly of girls, at typewriters, overseen by female teacher in academic gown (4.06) older pupils bring in crates of milk; c/u putting straw in each; c/u child drinking (4.27) boys putting away seats in a hall (4.47) children recite French (5.21) c/u French exercise book; c/u individual children speaking French (5.48) children arranged for class photograph (5.57) ints. boys in working at benches in a metal working class; c/u threading elements onto a string; c/u boy turning the elements on a lathe to form a handle; c/u finished item (7.07) exts. older boys working on a large wooden frame (7.27) c/u plate of food; gvs lunch being served in cafeteria, by three women (7.54) children crossing the road, with the help of a lollipop man; c/u man and "Stop Children Crossing" sign (8.11) ms teachers sitting outside on steps, reading and knitting, one or two wearing sun glasses (8.16) small children turning handstands on the school walls (8.26) gvs children walking through school corridors (9.09) c/u geometrical drawing (9.33) exts. teacher addresses class seated outside; c/u line drawing (10.05) a tawse is removed from a drawer; a hand is struck in silhouette (10.15) gardener cutting grass with shears (10.20) ints. Home Economics; girls in aprons with hair covered, eating fruit salad (10.36) gvs needlework (11.00) c/u clock; chairs are lifted onto desks, children leave (11.21) ls children leaving on bicycles through gates on a summer day (11.40) gvs First Aid at Girl Guides; action song (12.05) boy's soccer match (12.31) gvs play dress rehearsal (12.52) Recorder class (13.06) gvs cleaners sweeping and empty waste paper bins (13.19) Janitor closing the doors (13.37) Dedication of the Lectern (13.44) gvs ceremony, including minister reading from the lectern (14.23) Prize Day (14.28) gvs students accepting prizes on platform (15.32) [col] c/u posters for "Merchant of Venice" (15.43) exts. pupils perform scenes from the play outside the school, including a song; c/u's of pupils playing Bassanio, Portia, Shylock etc. in full stage make-up and fake hair (21.44) Dumfries Academy Sports (21.52) pan along street, numbers of children walk or cycle towards field (22.23) ms man firing starting gun; gvs foot races; c/u boy lying exhausted; further gvs races (23.39) ms commentator; gvs adult and children spectators (25.58) ms men chatting and drinking tea (26.28) ms girls drinking milk; spectators relaxing beside the track (26.53) gvs girl's race (27.39) gvs long jump; c/measuring jump (27.59) [slow motion] high jump (28.09) hurdles (28.40) c/u judge, apple juice under the table, c/u red socks; ms judges (29.35) [bw] ecs (29.38)