TIDAL SWIMMING POOL BANFF
Full length video
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Title: TIDAL SWIMMING POOL BANFF
Reference number: 9512
Date: 1959*
Director: filmed by A.J.G. Bodie
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.48 mins
Description: Portsoy and Sandend (possibly during summer), including shots of the train arriving at the outskirts of Portsoy, people in Portsoy outdoor swimming pool and cars parked along Sandend beach with families on the sand and children playing in the water.
Shotlist: l/s train tracks shot from within train – int close up shots of train driver, fields and coastal scenery in background – gvs of train tracks shot from within drivers cabin – l/s Portsoy as train approaches town – gvs taken from outskirts of Portsoy, including pan of Links Bay, Bin of Cullen and coastal views (1.05) pan Portsoy harbour mouth – gvs empty Portsoy outdoor swimming pool – high shot gvs of people in swimming pool including boys jumping from diving board, child floating on lilo, children diving from pool wall (2.19) l/s Sandend beach with cars parked on the sand and people wading on the shoreline, Durn Hill seen in background – pan Sandend beach with Glenglassaugh distillery in view on the hill – gvs families on the beach and children playing in the water (2.48)