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Title: CORONATION PICNIC

Reference number: 10081

Date: 1937 - 1938

Director: filmed by William Dick Brown

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.44 mins tbc

Description: Amateur footage of family activities, including loch-side picnics and boating, and a trip to London.

Shotlist: Group of children and adults sitting by a loch having a picnic, some of the children wearing bonnets. Children wave the union and lion rampant flags with balloons attached and a royal coronation flag. Boy, two women and a man by the loch side. Boy sits in a rowing boat while woman wades in the water next to him. Woman and boy in the rowing boat, she starts to row away. Two little girls and two little boys in a rowing boat. Man, woman and boy get into boat and they all wave at the camera. More shots of the adults and the children by the loch side. Boys running around with a dog on its lead. GVs of the loch and view. Boys wearing kilts jumping off a park bench helped by an older man and woman. Man playing with the children. Mounted soldier and the Cenotaph in London. Big Ben and a park. Boys playing in the water. Older woman sitting knitting on the beach on a deck chair. Boys in school uniform getting into a rowing boat and rowing on the water. Adults and children having a picnic. Shots from a back yard - a boy plays the bagpipes while another cuts wood. Man and a boy sawing wood. Brief shots of another man dancing.