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Title: SUMMER CAMP 1981

Reference number: 9461

Date: 1981

Director: filmed by John T. K. Barr

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 27.42 mins

Description: Amateur footage of activities at a summer Scout camp on the Cowal peninsula.

For further information about John (Ian) T. K. Barr, see:
http://www.jtkb.info/ [last accessed 22/06/2020]

Obituary of Barr published in the Glasgow Herald, November 2007: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12453549.john-t-k-barr/ [last accessed 22/06/2020]

For other films in this collection see also refs. 9456, 9457, 9458, 9459, 9460 and 9462

Additional information file held at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive at ref. 11/1/562.

Shotlist: 7TH PAISLEY JNI SCOUT TROOP - SUMMER CAMP 1981 - Shots of a Budget rental van driving off. ADVANCED PARTY - sign for Ardmarnock. The van reaches its destination and the boys unpack it. Tents are pitched. Men fishing at sunset. THE MOB ARRIVES AND SET UP THEIR PATROL AREAS - boys arriving and pitching their tents. Equipment is set up. The boys eating while watching a portable TV. MORNING INSPECTION AND FLAG BREAK - boys organise their equipment and organise the camp before they are inspected by leaders. Shot of sign “Swift JNI 1981”. Shots of the different groups being inspected. The Union flag is hoisted and a prayer is said. The boys get sweets and drinks from the tuck shop. PIONEERING PROJECT - boys are shown making and hoisting up a timber tower. Cooking and making a shelter. ASSAULT COURSE - boys completing the course before going swimming with a raft and inflatable dinghy. Cooking using an earth and grass covered oven. Scout making a fire. The boys use ropes to pick up bottles. Shot of score board for the scout annual Highland games before scenes from the games are shown. The flag is lowered, a bonfire is shown before another shot of the flag.