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Title: COLPORTAGE SOCIETY: OPEN-AIR MISSIONS

Reference number: 2938

Date: 1964*

Director: [filmed by James Clark]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.11 mins

Description: Open-air mission meetings on the beach with preachers telling biblical stories to children.

Shot by James Clark of the Scottish Colportage Society on his tours around Scotland as a colporter/evangelist..
See paper archives file for Xerox copy of autobiography "From Pit Boy to Preacher".

Shotlist: gvs of open-air mission on beach with children and some parents as spectators; includes shots of singing performed with guitars from a small wooden hut (0.19) Speakers tell biblical stories with aid of a large book of pictures and a large illustration of the crucifixion (0.45) pan over the audience, mostly children; shot of minister speaking from hut; speaker telling a story with an illustration made with detachable figures (1.31) Various shots of Colportage mobile vans. (1.42) Shots of memorial service; woman unveils small gravestone in the shape of a book, with the words "A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ" for Stanley Southgate; pans over gathered people (2.58)