YACHTING AND RAMBLING CLUB IN ARRAN
Full length video
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Title: YACHTING AND RAMBLING CLUB IN ARRAN
Reference number: 12536
Date: 1929*/1932*
Director: filmed by James Reid
Sound: silent
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 11.54 mins
Description:
Amateur footage of yachting and rambling on Arran in the early 1930s.
Films shot by donor’s grandfather, James Reid, before 1933.
James Reid, was born in Aberdeen in September 1876 and died in Largs in 1968. His grandfather, William Reid, was a photographer and photo camera maker in Aberdeen.
Note: Badly shrunk - most of the film was viewed through a magnifying glass.
See also refs. 12535 and 12537
Shotlist: Gv's of yachts sailing in the bay. Gv's of the land and seascape. Gv's of ramblers club (?) having a picnic on the mountainside. Gv's of the beach and people swimming in the sea. Lots of beach huts are lined up along the shore and a family play with a ball in the foreground.