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Title: WESTERN ISLES CRUISE

Reference number: 4424

Date: 1938, July

Director: [filmed by Ronald Jay]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.38 mins

Description: Holiday film. Jay family aboard yacht cruising through the Crinan Canal and up the western seaboard, visiting islands of Coll and Iona.

Home movie made by professional newsreel cameraman.

See Scottish Cine Biography under JAY, Ronald L. - for a list of Jay's films currently accessible in the Scottish Screen Archive.

Shotlist: [Title missing] Jay family holiday aboard yacht. Gv's passing through Crinan Canal emerging into Crinan basin (2.51) [shot of Ronald Jay in green jersey at (1.50)] gv's aboard yacht at sea, shots other sailing vessels and of coastal landscape and island views. Party goes ashore at various coastal locations for walks. (8.37) gv's Arinagour on island of Coll, Jay party ashore in the village. Post Office and Coll Hotel. gv's village from sea. (10.47) Approaching the Treshnish Isles. gv's aboard yacht. Heading for Dutchman's Cap (13.24) Iona [bad magenta cast] gv's of village and Abbey from water.(14.14) [good colour returns] Visiting the Abbey (14.48) family on beach, scenics (15.35) at sea (16.38) [end credits missing]