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Title: FAMILY OCCASIONS

Reference number: 9481

Date: 1968 - 1969 / 1974

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.48 mins

Description: Amateur footage of various family events throughout the year, including holidays, Easter, Christmas and the birth of a new baby at Overtoun House maternity hospital.

See also refs 9479 9480 and 9482

Shotlist: [no title] - gvs people relaxing on sun loungers around hotel swimming pool, Lloret de Mar, 1974 (0.15) gvs Highland games in field - piper practising - family watching from side, man with toddler, boy with large sunglasses, children pose for camera - pan across field and crowds, Luss Highland Games, 1969 (1.48) gvs inside house, children sitting on floor with chocolate Easter eggs - one boy makes another 'disappear' with trick photography, then reappear - same trick with baby - boy and girl helping baby to walk - baby in pram at window, Easter Sunday 1969, Howatshaws Road, Bellsmyre, Dumbarton (4.03) gvs family in park, children rolling Easter eggs down slope at Levengrove Park, Dumbarton, Easter Sunday 1969 (5.06) gvs ferry 'Snaefell' at pier, car disembarking down ramps - gvs ferry 'Tynwald' arriving at pier, passengers waving from windows then disembarking down gangplank - brief shot diesel train passing Ardrossan Pier, July 1968, family returning from holiday in Douglas, Isle of Man - shots of family taking cases from Ford Cortina estate car and entering house, Dumbuie Avenue, Dumbarton - dark shots of children playing in garden of Overtoun House maternity hospital, mother throwing them sweets from hospital window - man and woman come out of hospital, nurse carrying new-born baby wrapped up in shawl - mother and baby get into back seat of car - shots from car driving away down drive, July 1968 (9.26) shots of man and woman arriving home with new baby, children gather round, Howatshaws Road, July 1968 - int shots in house, woman sits in seat with baby - baby is dressed in christening robes - family leave house with baby (11.47) woman undresses baby and children gather round as baby is bathed in living room and dried - children pose for camera (15.06) gvs display of presents in living room, children's toys, sweets, football strip - children playing with presents, mother hands out more, father in dressing gown opens a present, children open more presents, Christmas 1968 (18.27) large family gathering around dinner table for Christmas meal, children having their meal at coffee table - children hand out Christmas presents to adults, one young woman very amused by her present, 'joke' presents with extra layers of wrapping, boy shows gold watch to camera, Christmas 1968 - woman with bandaged finger has a drink, 'Val Doonican Rocks But Gently' record on window sill behind her (21.48)