ADVENTURES OF "WEE ROB ROY" No I, the
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Title: ADVENTURES OF "WEE ROB ROY" No I, the
Reference number: 0635
Date: 1916*
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 3.26 mins
Description: An animated film of the adventures of Wee Rob Roy.
Shotlist:
[Note:- Shotlisted at 24fps. Total running time at actual speed of 18fps is 3.26 mins]
Credits (.10); Wee Rob Roy playing the bagpipes in his living-room. His mother tells him to stop and he is sent out (.32); Rob goes hunting. Rob Roy takes pot shots at a bird and a rabbit (.59); He then watches some golfers (1.10); ... and motoring. Rob jumps into a car parked outside the Thistle Inn, runs over a policeman and a fisherman, travels over rough terrain, crashes and is sent flying through the air (1.35); Also an aerial trip. Rob Roy holds onto a bird's legs as it flies across the ocean, landing on a desert island where he is captured by the inhabitants (2.12); A quick way home. Rob Roy is shot out of a cannon and flies back across the ocean. He lands safely back where he started (2.36)