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Title: GOLD COAST AUSTRALIA AND UTICA

Reference number: 10038

Date: 1970

Director: filmed by Robert Sibbald

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.05 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a travel agent's trips to Gold Coast in Australia, Bangkok and the 1970 World Curling Championship in New York State.

Film maker was the Edinburgh based travel agent Robert Sibbald. Sibbald Travel Agents operated for 50 years from 1947. The films show the film maker's travels abroad researching holiday destinations and cruises. The film maker's grandson believes Sibbald took most of the films in order to give talks to various bodies to get business for the travel agency. Sibbald did a lot of work in ski resorts in Europe and he organised the travel for the Scottish curling teams both for holidays and competitions.

Shotlist: [no title] - gvs Paradise Towers apartments, sign for Surfers Paradise beach - shots of woman walking along past beach, Grenada Motel - high shots over roofs of houses of Gold Coast - shots of family outside house - gvs beach and coastline, streets - young woman handing out leaflets at airport?, passengers disembarking from Ansett aircraft on tarmac - shots of family coming out of house and getting into car - visit to Currumbin Bird Sanctuary, feeding rainbow lorikeets, wallabies (2.22) gvs beach at Gold Coast - family coming out of house, older woman showing pineapple to young girl (2.43) gvs Erawan Hotel, Bangkok, entrance, swimming pool - tracking shots from boat on busy river, small ferries passing, boatyard, cargo lighters - gvs from boat on smaller river, families outside riverside houses, fruit vendors on canoes - women watching elephant shackled to ground - gvs boats on river, passing Grand Palace (4.20) gvs of party of visitors on street, inside large building - gvs hotel, guests at tables beside swimming pool, man being photographed with group of Buddhist monks - gvs busy Bangkok street, traffic and pedestrians (5.34) gvs Laurentien Hotel, Montreal, street scenes, Greyhound Bus arriving in station - road sign 'Welcome to New York - The Empire State' - gvs Crossroads Restaurant at Moira, New York State, men and women coming out over icy forecourt to board Greyhound bus to Milwaukee (6.49) gvs Hotel Utica, New York State, headquarters for World Curling Championship, Air Canada Silver Broom - high shot Utica Memorial Auditorium, venue for curling championship - int shots curling matches, signs 'Utica Curling Club, 1868 - 1968' - ext gvs auditorium, sign for curling championship - int gvs opening ceremony, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, USA, Canada, France teams arrive on ice - gvs curling matches, focusing on Scotland v. Sweden and Scotland v. Canada - brief gvs medal ceremony with Canadian and Scottish teams (11.05)