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Title: CHILDREN'S EXCURSION 1952

Reference number: 1875

Date: 1952

Director: [filmed by W.E. Richardson]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.07 mins

Description: A children's excursion from Moniaive in Dumfriesshire to Edinburgh, visiting the Castle, the Zoo and the Forth Rail Bridge.

Filmed by local amateur cinematographer Bill Richardson, native of the area, who travelled the district showing his films in local halls under the name Glen-Galloway Cinemas.

Digitisation funded by British Film Institute 'Unlocking Film Heritage', awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Shotlist: Title (0.04); Various shots of children and parents waiting for buses and shots of the buses leaving Moniaive (0.51); Shots of streets in Penpont and various scenes en route to Biggar including shots of the buses, countryside and signposts (2.05); Shots of street scenes in Biggar and buses passing through (2.35); Various shots of Edinburgh, trams, castle, Princes Street and Calton Hill from the castle [underexposed] including shots of children's outing to Edinburgh Zoo (5.39); Shots of the Forth railway bridge and steam train passing over while children watch. Children in tearoom. Buses leaving Forth rail bridge (6.52); Shots of streets in Lanark and road signposts (7.23); Streets in Moniaive and shots of gardens (8.07)