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Title: LORD BOYD ORR

Reference number: 4220

Date: 1967

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.44 mins

Description: A brief account of the life and work of Scottish biologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, John Boyd Orr.

Please note the film preserved is mute [no accompanying sound exists in the archive]

Shotlist: REEL 1
talking head Boyd Orr, iv.ed in his living room (3.00) l/s school playground, gvs in classroom (3.44) talking head Boyd Orr, intercut with WW1 footage, troops in trenches, fighting and tending to casualties (9.22) ext. Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutrition, gvs cattle, sheep, goats, talking head Boyd Orr (10.34) gvs housing inspectors checking a tenement household for the number of residents under that roof. A group of children and adult hide from the inspectors (10.54) narrow tenement street scene - children playing, woman shakes dust off rug, old men sit in street (11.18) gvs on street as a family load their belongings onto cart to move house. A group of children look on (11.46) talking head Boyd Orr, intercut with "archive" footage (c 1930s)of workmen eating pieces on street, children drinking bottles of milk, and cattle being inspected (14.56) 537 ft

REEL 2
various drawings depicting colonised slave trade, deforestation in Africa (?), gvs agricultural methods in foreign lands (3.36) talking head [K. Baxter] (4.11) gvs scientists at work in chemistry lab (5.15) talking head iv. Boyd Orr, intercut with brief clip of dignitaries (including Boyd Orr) meeting the Pope (10.48) 389 ft