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Title: BRAES O' BREADALBANE, the

Reference number: 4360

Date: 1950*

Director: [filmed by David Sime]

Sponsor: The Scottish Countryside Club

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.28 mins

Description: Join in the high jinks of the Scottish Countryside Club in the 1950s, as the fearless men and women explore the treacherous Perthshire hills in a snowy winter, clad in tweed jackets and headscarves. There is time for a nip of whisky at the top, and a unique dance involving ice picks, as the group are rewarded for their near vertical ascent on icy slopes with a sparkling vista. A lovely amateur colour film from David Sime.

"'Breadalbane' is a district amid the Grampians in West Perthshire, an elevated and wild tract scored by deep glens with numerous lochs and mountain torrents; extends from Lochaber and Atholl on the North to Strathearn and Menteith on the South. Johnston's Gazetteer of Scotland, p. 56".

David Sime was a pharmacist, photographer and President of the Scottish Countryside Club, which promoted the enjoyment of nature and the outdoors, hillwalking and rambling, as well as holding social events such as an annual concert and garden parties, with much hilarity in evidence. The club travelled all over Scotland, but many walks were held near to the central belt, with outings to locations such as the Trossachs and Loch Lomond proving popular. Mr Sime’s films depicted traditional industries such as farming and fishing, as well as scenic landscapes and walks. Many of these landscapes remain unchanged, but the style and the gear of the walkers is very different to the equipment of today’s adventurers.

Credits: The Scottish Countryside Club presents

Shotlist: credits (0.04) gvs crowd of about twenty people climbing (1.21) shot of them enjoying packed lunch and flasks of tea (1.35) gvs snow covered mountain tops and people climbing etc (4.05) The Braes O' Breadalbane (4.10) gvs Killin with river in spate (5.45) c/u sign 'The Burial Ground of the Clan MacNab, keys with MacNair Clachaig Cottage' and gvs same, with woman walking through beautiful carpet of autumn leaves (6.56) shot of church and grounds (7.36) shots of cottages with thatched roofs and gardens (8.02) gvs Perthshire landscapes and features [unidentified] such as stone archway, church (9.15) shots of group of hillwalkers pushing a green 'Baxter's Coach' and milling around (9.38) gvs ascent and descent of mountain, with people walking through snow, occasionally using ice picks, and gvs BREADALBANE range (14.21) The End (14.28)