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Title: FAMILY HOLIDAYS 1936/'38

Reference number: 1338

Date: 1936 - 1938

Director: filmed by James Ogg

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20.15 mins

Description: A family holiday film taken in the Scottish Highlands with shots of Fraserburgh, Inverness and Thurso.

Shotlist: REEL I (1936)

No credits. girl playing on a beach; extreme c/u man pulling a face (0.13) Summer 1936 At Laide Ross-shire. The New Bungalow (0.24) Shots of bungalow under construction near Ard, Ross-shire. (0.52) Ogg family picnic, shots of family members relaxing, hand feeding pony and chicken (2.03) Long shot silhouette of hill range, general views of coastal scenery, men taking out a pair of rowing boats (3.55) family group relaxing, play to camera (4.49) Gruinard Bay. (4.51) General views of bay and shot of Gruinard Island in the background. Family on the beach; c/u footprint sin sand (6.00) General views sheep shearing with hand shears (6.14) Drumchork - Salmon fishing. (6.20) Shot of fisherman with chair in small boat rowing away from shore. (6.34) General views salmon nets being cast and hauled in. (6.54) Men land salmon. Shots of fish being boxed. (7.34) Bullers of Buchan. (7.38) General views coastal scenery. (8.18) c/u "Fraserburgh Harbour: Notice to Fishermen" (8.24) Shots of steam drifters entering and at anchor in harbour. General views of packed harbour, fish being landed, packed and salted. (9.40) Inverness. (9.42) Brief shot of old bridge across Ness, "David MacBrayne Ltd Royal Mail Services" bus crossing (10.04) Visitors Day at Camp. (10.07) Family scenes on the campsite. (10.33) sheep feeding at a trough (10.45) Mountain scenery (10.52)

REEL II (1936 - 1938)

No credits. Car on road. (0.06) Flying Flea at Catterick. (0.09) Shots of a small plane on the ground. Shots of bi-plane bomber. (0.53) General views streets of Cambridge and various buildings. (1.27) Reconstruction of Canal Bridge. (1.30) Shots of demolition of old and construction of new canal bridge across Slateford Road, Edinburgh. Brief shot of canal water being pumped through during construction. (2.09) tracking shot new bridge, passing traffic policeman in a white coat (2.20) Shots small fishing vessels entering Port Seton with masts furled. (2.43) woman shows a number of fish threaded onto a ring; fish in frying pan (2.55) Eat More Fish (2.57) Ogg family on camp site (3.14) Shots early horse-pulled combine harvester at work in field. (3.43) Thurso July 1938. (3.46) family group (3.56) Shots coastal and mountain scenery (5.53) Northumberland, September 1938. (6.00) Car driving across water logged sands to Holy Island (before causeway was built); tracking shots from car (6.53) General views Lindisfarne Abbey, castle and village. (8.33) Shots of the car returning through shallow waters (9.03) c/u older man, silhouette of filmmaker; ls fishing boat (9.23)