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Title: NORTH EUROPEAN WATERSKIING CHAMPIONSHIP / CRIEFF HIGHLAND GATHERING

Reference number: 10035

Date: 1963

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 27.06 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the North European Waterskiing Championship at Lochearnhead, the Crieff Highland Gathering and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Shotlist: Dark gvs landscape. Amulree Hotel sign. Fishing beside small river in countryside. Group of people outside Fortingall Hotel, walking along street past thatched cottages. GVs North European water-skiing championships at Lochearnhead. Ski-jumping on ramp. Extensive slow motion and detailed shots of water skiers in action. GVs crowds of spectators and people having lunch and drinks outside hotel. Sign ‘Crieff Highland Gathering 1963’. GVs guests in grandstand, including the Earl of Mansfield. Officials, Gurkha pipe band, wrestling, Household Cavalry brass band, tug-of-war, tossing the caber, bicycle race, running, pole vault, throwing the hammer, Highland dancing, pipe band, funfair and spectators. Dark shots of Edinburgh Military Tattoo, including regimental Highland dancing, marching band of Royal Jordan Army, Gurkha pipe band - The End.