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Title: Sale at Grogarry

Reference number: 21188

Date: 1979, April 23

Sponsor: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar; Scottish Film Council; Gulbenkian Foundation; Highlands and Islands Development Board

Production company: Cinema Sgire Project

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.36 mins

Description: Cattle auction at Grogarry. [The auction is conducted in English, however conversational Gaelic is heard during the recording].

This video was digitised with support from Bòrd na Gàidhlig and The Gaelic Language Promotion Trust.

The Cinema Sgìre Project was a community project set up by Comhairle nan Eilean in 1977 - 1981 and was largely supported by the Scottish Film Council (a forerunner of the Moving Image Archive), the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Highlands and Islands Development Board. The Project operated throughout the Uists and Barra. In addition to the operation of a mobile cinema the Project also recorded everyday life in the islands.

Cinema Sgire was a community project using early video technology. Any inherent defects such as signal loss, drop-out, visual / audio disturbances, interruptions or incompleteness will be present in the recording.

Shotlist: [Camera pointed at the ground] Gaelic conversation briefly picked up while walking. Gv of cows tethered to a post. Cattle loaded to a lorry trailer. Lorry with the cattle arriving at to off-load the cattle to a pen for auction. [Auction in English. Incidental Gaelic speech is intermittently recorded above the sound of the wind buffeting the microphone]