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Title: LOCH LOMOND NATURE RESERVE

Reference number: 1849

Date: 1970

Director: filmed by C.E. Palmar

Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland

Production company: Park Film Studios

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.13 mins

Description: A study of the Loch Lomond Nature Reserve, set up in 1962.

The film-maker was Charles Palmar, a Natural History Curator in Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow from 1949 - 1984.

Shotlist: Opening credits (0.14) gvs loch lomond landscape (0.50) brief gvs Glasgow's heavy industrial landscape, followed by shots of the influx of visitors to Loch Lomond, illustrating how this can be a threat to the wildlife - deer, plants (orchids, globe flowers), geese, fish (2.05) gvs south-east part of Loch Lomond set up as a nature reserve in 1962 (2.56) small boat draws up to the quayside at Inchcailloch on the nature reserve and passengers disembark (3.17) gvs of visitors, including children, following the nature trail at Inchcailloch with shots of the wildlife - woodpecker, tree creeper, plants and flowers (primrose, bluebells, willow with catkins, hazel, pines, water lilies) buzzard, ducks, toads, moths, cattle, terns, salmon leaping upstream, winter scenes. In general, gvs around the nature reserve (17.45) ecs (18.08)