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Title: OCT. 1961 AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND HONG KONG

Reference number: 10045

Date: 1961

Director: filmed by Robert Sibbald

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.23 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a travel agent's visits to New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.

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] - pan across snow-covered mountains - c/u sign 'The Hermitage', Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand - pan across hotel - gvs tour party boarding coach on town street - road sign to views of Lyttelton Harbour and Diamond Harbour - gvs Lyttelton from high viewpoint - street scenes in Christchurch at junction of High Street and Hereford Street and Colombo Street (1.40) gvs at airport, Qantas Lockheed aircraft being unloaded, American military personnel disembarking from US Air Force Douglas aircraft, onlookers at barrier (2.22) pans across Sydney skyline to Sydney Harbour Bridge and beyond - c/u sign 'Beach Street' - gvs Coogee Beach, sunbathers, men pushing out rowing boat, children playing on sand - gvs lifeguards' station on beach, members of Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club drilling on beach - gvs sunbathers and wind-breaks, people wading in surf (5.01) tracking shot from boat of ferry passing at sea - people on deck of boat, passing junks and small fishing boats, disembarking at harbour - pan across coastal landscape - gvs ceremony on hill with military brass band, schoolchildren, elegantly-dressed Chinese women - dark shot of workers in paddy field (6.42) gvs Hong Kong Golf Club, clubhouse and course - gvs in countryside, ducks in stream, farmer herding ducks along road with traffic passing, fields with ducks, buffalo - pan across landscape - street scene in town, shacks in foreground and new apartments being built - busy street scenes in Hong Kong, market and shops - gvs harbour, junk loaded with hundreds of boxes, fishing boats, Luk Kwok Restaurant - tracking gvs of waterfront from boat, advertising signs on roofs, naval vessels including aircraft carrier, sampans - shot of Kowloon Post Office, busy street scene, junks on water (11.14) shots of men and women getting into car, standing outside Peking Restaurant - Chinese women outside house, gvs house and garden - shots of ferry docking and heavy vehicles driving off - young men at Lyons Ice Cream bicycle - street vendor - ferry passing - tracking shot from boat of cargo ships in harbour - bus station - hotel - brief shot Hong Kong airport (13.23)