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Title: MAJORCA

Reference number: 3840

Date: 1966*

Director: filmed by Frank Marshall

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.01 mins

Description: This film records a family holiday in Majorca during the 1950s. Lots of lush scenery, the local market, crafts and people with plenty beach scenes.

Shotlist: map of Balearic Island of Majorca (0.12) gvs two middle-aged ladies swimming and enjoying the sun, views of bustling jetty from seafront of Hotel Uyal (0.51) gvs waterskiing and people sunbathing (2.30) men and women enjoying cycling and sitting in cafe (2.59) street scenes in Pollensa, views of seafront, boats and bathers (4.00) shots of Hotel Illa d'Or (4.41) road shot taken from travelling car past cypress trees (4.25) gvs crowded beach at Porto Cristo (4.46) street scenes (4.59) gvs of men in traditional clothes selling traditional crafts (man on donkey with pottery), man playing bagpipes and taking pictures (5.31) gvs inside caves with geological features of interest (e.g. stalactites) (5.59) shot of boats moving through caves, lit only by chains of lights attached to boat and caves with soft orange lights (5.59) oof shot of blowtorch melting something (?) (6.27) still shot of women making jewellery (beads and pearls) at Manacor (6.37) young girls sewing in the street, wearing traditional white cotton head-dress (7.01) shot travelling on road (7.05) gvs bustling Sunday market (outdoors) at Pollensa (8.54) shot of children on donkey cart pulled by donkey (9.02) l/s woman climbing long staircase in town, gvs of views from the top (whitewashed houses and lush greenery) (9.35) shot travelling on road (9.42) gvs Valldemosa monastery and mountain scenery (10.12) shot travelling on road (10.16) gvs boat trip to Formentor and beach scenes of people bathing in sea, good shots of waves crashing against the shore (13.53) The End. A Marshall Film (14.01)