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Title: MALTA AND TRIPOLI

Reference number: 10041

Date: 1966

Director: filmed by Robert Sibbald

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.43 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a travel agent's visit to Malta, Libya and Cyprus in the summer of 1966.

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 Valletta, Malta, including Phoenicia Hotel, Triton Fountain, buses - gvs busy street, including The British Bar, D. Buhagiar cake shop, square and fountain, pigeons on town walls - panning shots around Valletta from high point on walls (1.06) gvs Xara Palace Hotel, Mdina - gvs landscape from high point - shots Mdina old city gateway (1.41) shots of newly-built hotel on cliff at Golden Bay, pan across coastline - gvs hotel frontage, rocky beach with walkway and sun-loungers, swimming pool - gvs Saint John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, bell-towers and frontage - gvs public gardens, swimming pool - high shots of Valletta city and harbours - gvs hotel swimming pool next to city walls - sign 'Selmun Home Farm' - gv Selmun Palace - gvs newly-built hotel at Golden Bay - ext and ints of Hotel Imperial, courtyard and swimming pool - gvs harbour and boats - street scene, Valletta - gvs waterfronts and forts, Valletta (4.28) gvs Albergo Del Mehari hotel, Tripoli, Libya, street and waterfront, Grand Hotel entrance and frontage - gvs long beach, families sunbathing, beach huts - street scenes, tracking shots from carriage pulled by decorated horse (5.29) gvs Catsellis Hill Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus, including frontage, dining area outdoors, pan across landscape and hills - shots of Hilarion Hotel (6.18) gvs beach at Varosha, Famagusta, soldiers in uniform walking past, holidaymakers sunbathing and swimming - evening view along beach from high balcony (6.48) pan across countryside - gvs Catsellis Dome Hotel, Kyrenia - pans along Kyrenia waterfront - holidaymakers on rocky shore and swimming pool - Rock Ruby Hotel, Kyrenia and pan across castle and old harbour (7.43)