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Title: WOTHERSPOON FAMILY 1938 - 1942

Reference number: 3565

Date: 1938 - 1942

Director: [filmed by Robert Wotherspoon]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.44 mins

Description: A family summer holiday at Millport and winter games in the garden.

Robert Wotherspoon, the film-maker, was Provost of Inverness and Director of Caledonian Associated Cinemas. [See also Ref 3566]

Shotlist: children playing with dogs, in the garden with the family (1.37) man and woman and wee boy beside car in front of houses, on seafront (1.48) family making sandcastle on beach at Millport with houses in b/g, shots of family paddling in sea (4.30) more shots of children paddling and playing in sand [very poor image quality] (6.33) children playing with model boats on pond (7.40) children on "crocodile rock" (8.20) family in snow covered garden, boys standing beside snowman with swastika marked on it (9.35) couple getting into car, children playing in the snow, on a sledge, throwing snowballs (13.13) family in the garden, with dogs, children sitting in swing chair (14.55) family at the beach, swimming in sea (16.44)