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Title: SCENES AT RENFREWSHIRE HUNT

Reference number: 0778

Date: 1930c

Director: [filmed by John P. Ritchie]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.57 mins

Description: The Renfrewshire hunt assembling and in progress. Shots of a blacksmith shoeing horses during the hunt, and hounds running across country.

See also ref. 0777

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected tape, manual control track]

[no title or credits] brief shot beagle and puppies; dozens of hounds run out from pen, following three riders (0.28) Various shots of riders, mounts, hounds, and spectators as they gather at a large country house for the hunt, including one very elderly man; intercut with three riders arriving with hounds, drinking whisky (?) poured from glass decanter (3.05) Shots of mounted riders and the hunt in the field. intercut with various shots of participants, both mounted and following in cars. brief shot crowd of children and some men looking on (5.00) Shots of well-dressed people with chauffeur driven cars; brief family shot (8.36) Shots of a blacksmith as he shoes horses by the roadside, more shots of the hunt; people gathered by cars outside a house with horses; brief shot man with feathers in his hatband; blacksmith shoes a pony. (10.23) shot of horse pawing the ground; blacksmith shoes a horse at the roadside; elevated shot of hunt; farrier at work again, then tying up his tools (12.30) man securing top hat to his head [using a pin?: as the rest of the party, he wears no protective headgear]; riders standing around their cars [very brief blank] (13.28) lady in top hat sitting side-saddle; riderless horse running off (15.10) hounds running through woodlands across dry stane dykes, over wire fences; shot riders jumping a wall hounds following (16.50) hounds crossing a stream (17.57)