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Title: VIEWPOINT

Reference number: 6744

Date: 1951

Director: filmed by Robert H. Paterson

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.46 mins

Description: Film concerning an artists selection of a subject to paint in a picture and the subsequent painting of it.

A prizewinning film in the Scottish Amateur Film Festival of 1952 , winning the Marshall Sloan Prize - £2-2/-. Adjudicators comment -" This was a very interesting and attractive film. Greater care could, however, have been takn in lining up some of the shots of the painting."

Seealso National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive paper archive refs. 2/3/35; 2/3/37.

Credits: sc. George B. Scott
cam. Robert H. Paterson
artist G. Graham Quick

Shotlist: Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1952 A Prize-winning Film (0.07) title and credits over film (0.31) 2 men walk down to small pier, hold briefly a small viewfinder, then return to car (1.34) car stops again on country hillside road overlooking football field (1.48) elevated view of car on road (2.14) car stops at coastal spot, men get out and open field gate. Car parked in cow field (2.42) men remove artists materials from boot and survey surrounding area through viewfinder (3.21) man sits on artists stool for better view and sets up easel (3.56) man sketching in pencil (4.14) c/u man's face, Ailsa Craig in b/ground (4.18) man prepares portable paint palate and begins to paint background in watercolour (6.26) artists view of subject, a double decker bus passes (6.36) artist continues to paint more detail whilst smoking a cigarette. Shots of subject landscape intercut with painting (9.00) almost finished painting (9.05) closer view as man applies finishing touches (10.30) finished painting (10.37) c/u artist, Ailsa Craig in b/ground, fade (10.43) The End (10.46)