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Title: CALEDONIAN CANAL, the

Reference number: 1686

Date: 1960s

Director: [filmed by D.G. Russell]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.03 mins

Description: Filmed over a period of twelve years, we are taken on a journey through the Caledonian Canal in a motor yacht, travelling from east to west.

Credits: This film is a modest tribute to Thomas Telford and the unsung heroes who made the canal in the face of adversity.

Shotlist: Credits (0.18); This canal unites the waters of the North Sea at Clachnaharry near Inverness with the waters of the Atlantic at Corpach near Fort William. Shot of map of Scotland; c/u map of canal (0.42); The sea lock near Clachnaharry near Inverness. Shots of motor yacht "Ormidale" in lock. Lock-keeper's house, with name-board reading 'Caledonian Canal' (1.12); Looking astern towards the Moray Firth. General views of the Firth (1.24); The bridge carries the main railway northwards. General views railway swing-bridge (1.37); All locks have now been mechanised like this one. shots of Lock-keepers house with a large window from which he now operates the lock; lock in operation (1.47); In Muirtown Basin. General views and sunset (2.10); Muirtown Bridge and locks. Shots of same. A ship descends through the locks. ms of vessel, MV Manta (2.35); Modern lock working. Ints. keeper at control panel. Shots of "MV Manta" going through lock; (3.33); Four staircase locks at Muirtown. Shots of launch ascending and general views in canal. There are altogether 29 locks which can pass vessels 150' ft long by 35' beam by 13' draft shot of man and boy on fore-deck A regulating lock to adjust the level to coincide with Loch Ness (4.09); Shots of Dochgarroch Lock. Leaving the end of Loch Ness. (4.15); Pleasure craft in and yachts in Loch Ness (4.28); Entering Loch Ness we meet "Scott II". General views of loch and passing vessels (4.55); Castle Urquhart. General views (5.16); Fort Augustus. Map and shots of Fort Augustus from hill and in the canal (5.47); Concentration at Fort Augustus where there are five locks. General views of boats; ms small boy in a lifejacket on fore-deck; diver at work in a lock, from a small boat (6.34); Above the locks at Fort Augustus. General views of yacht (6.55); Kytra lock. "Flashback" to lock manually operated by capstan. "MV Ormidale" goes through (7.41); Loch Oich, top level. General views in lock and on loch of launch moving past the camera full speed (9.00); Another top level. Ben Nevis. Shots from loch (9.16); Neptune's staircase at Banavie. Eight locks. A Norwegian cargo vessel leaving Banavie Locks (9.30); Western terminal basin at Corpach. Map. General views of lock and basin, gate -lifting vessel is visible in the basin, pulp mill in b/ground (9.52); Leaving fresh water at Corpach. Shots of launch in Corpach sea-lock (10.03).