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Title: BREAKFAST IN THE CARAVAN SEPT. 1959

Reference number: 3511

Date: 1959 / 1961

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.48 mins

Description: Holiday footage of family dining in their caravan. Shots of snow on New Year's Eve 1961 at Marywell.

Taggart family owned a granite yard up until 1956 when they sold up, bought a farm at Marywell on Deeside and moved from the city to the rural life. Both mother, Nannie, and daughter Nan, chronicled the early years of their new lives on the farm on film. Nan Taggart and cousin Glen Ross interviewed about the films on THE WAY IT WAS, Grampian TV, transmitted October / November 1994.

Shotlist: [no credits] shots of Marywell sign. Ints caravan, shots of someone making breakfast on the gas stove (fried eggs and toast) shots of family sitting down to eat breakfast (1.10) shots of someone washing up breakfast dishes in the caravan, shot of girl reading newspaper inside caravan (1.23) Snow at Marywell shot of a kitten eating cat food from a plate on snowy ground, shots of snowy scenes, roads covered in snow (2.10) shot of icicle hanging from roof, shots of man and woman clearing up snow from a garden(2.53) The End (2.56)

[Please note at actual running speed of 18fps this title has a total running time of 3.48 mins]