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Title: UNICA - BUTLINS / CRIEFF WEEKEND / BELLEISLE FLOWERS

Reference number: 10455

Date: 1951

Director: filmed by Averil and Willie Murdoch

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.15 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the 13th UNICA Congress held in Glasgow in 1951, with visits to Ayr and Crieff, and ciné club members filming.

Shotlist: [BW] Shots of men doing a tug of war. One side wears kilts while the other side wears tartan trousers. Large crowds watching. Group gathered near a tour bus. Shots of the group taking photographs of Burns’ Cottage. Shots of a man filming the cottage with a ciné camera. Men and women getting off the bus. Crowd of people walking along a road. Shots of the swimming pool and fountain in the Butlins holiday park. (Heads of Ayr Camp). Shots of the castle shaped exterior walls of the holiday park next to the chalet accommodation. Men filming with their ciné cameras. Bus drivers leaning against a Bluebird coach. Exterior of Scottish Film Council building in Glasgow with a sign for UNICA (Union International du Cinéma d'amateur). Shots of girls on horseback. Women and men with ciné cameras. Shots of men filming the girls who sit in a circle. Shots of a man setting up his camera while men sit on the grass. Shots of people sitting outside eating. (Butterstone House School near Crieff (?) Shots of the Town Hall in Crieff.
[COL] Shots of various flowers in Belleisle Park, Ayr, including snowdrops, daffodils and hyacinths.