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Title: RING, the

Reference number: 1859

Date: 1930s

Production company: filmed by Dumfries and Galloway Amateur Film Assoc.

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 15.00 mins

Description: Story about a young man leaving Glasgow University and taking a train to Dumfries to rejoin his fiancee. He takes a job with Dickson's Popular Tours to earn the money for a ring, taking a tour bus to Sweetheart Abbey and viewpoints in the area. He hopes to claim a reward offered for an escaped criminal through the local newspaper, but when the "hero" discovers the convict is a friend of his fiancee's father he helps him to escape. General views of Dumfries and New Abbey village.

Credits: From a story by Murray McClymont players James White, Annie Elder, Hugh Culbert, James Williamson

Shotlist: Credits. Shot of Glasgow University; two men in academic dress, one hands over his gown and leaves with a suitcase on a Glasgow Corporation tram; he buys a ticket at Glasgow Central Station (1.20) shots of steam locomotives; young man is met by a young woman at Dumfries station, they walk away arm in arm; looking at rings the man cannot afford; man takes up a job with "Dickson's Popular Tours" (3.15) they arrive at her father's house for tea (4.36) c/u ringing alarm clock; father leaves the house; the couple leave (4.59) pan over a rank of tour buses; the young man's tour bus fills up (5.40) tracking shot of scenery from bus intercut with young man giving his tour (6.24) tourists alight, gvs tour of Sweetheart Abbey; c/u Ancient Monuments Protection Acts sign; young stragglers jump on bus (7.25) gvs touring on bus (8.45) c/u passengers' feet; tourists swimming and smoking; c/u tea rooms sign (9.06) gvs touring on bus; bus stops abruptly, policeman looks at passengers before taking his leave (10.04) tourists leaving; tour guide reads paper; c/u paper "Dumfries Convict at Large...Police Theory of Unknown Accomplice...Big Reward Offered"; young man follows other men in the street; c/u walking feet (12.25) the convict ducks through shadows; the young man discovers him in a room with his fiancee's father (13.37) zoom on car's headlights; young man helps the fugitive escape to the rail station; outside the jewellers, his fiancee asks him if he caught the man, he shakes his head. (15.00). The End.