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Title: DUMFRIES ACADEMY 1969 - 1970

Reference number: 2679

Date: 1969 - 1970

Director: [filmed by pupils of Dumfries Academy]

Sponsor: [ Dumfries Academy]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10 mins,c

Description: One of a series of films made about life in Dumfries Academy 1955-1978, this film was shot by pupils in the academic year 1969-1970, and includes several "in-jokes". See also ref. 2678 "[ONE FINE DAY]".

Shotlist: Title. The Beginning pan over group of young girls. And the End male prefect being mobbed by older girls. (0.29) A long way to go junior pupils at play on climbing frames, playing cat's cradle etc. Playground games IC... rarin' to go younger pupils entering classroom. A few years later and none the wiser senior pupils entering classroom. Sports Day senior pupils playing the fool. Young man with a beard knitting. Granny Geddes knit of the year. Haute Coiffure a bearded man tied up on a chair wearing his academic gown back to front, another man pretending to shave him with a cutthroat razor; intercut with girl on chair. (3.21) Commercial Break staff and pupils going for refreshments. Legs series of shots; socks, tights, mini-skirts, trousers. Unisex hits Dfs. Academy series of shots showing pupils of both sexes similarly dressed. (5.05) Round about views from Dumfries Academy; gvs Dumfries; Robert Burns memorial statue; pupils fooling (some rudely) for the camera. (5.52) Farewell pan of line of girls; pupils leaving, then staff and Rector. (6.34)The End