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Title: BENMORE HOUSE AND ESTATE

Reference number: 2413

Date: 1934*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.35 mins

Description: Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.

Shotlist: No credits; Benmore House and Estate gifted by H.G. Younger, Esq as a forestry and botany demonstration area. (0.05) shots of main gate, c/u sign giving price of admission; ls drive leading in (1.06) In policies are many fine trees (1.11); ls trees (1.31) "The Cathedral" the pillars are trees of Abies Nobilis (1.37) gvs same (2.12) close shot ornamental fountain (2.34); In the Gardens. (2.38) Greenhouse and [rhododendron] beds, duck pond (4.48); The Cruach seen from the gardens. (4.52) Gvs forested hill (5.43); Among the shrubs. (5.47) Gvs foliage (6.50); Benmore House. Used as a hostel for visiting students and as a school and hostel for forestry trainees, etc. (6.59) Exterior of the house [man riding lawn mower in f/ground] (7.22); Trainees. (7.28) Gvs map making class; pan over bottled botanical samples (8.15) Learning to measure heights of trees with instruments (8.21); exts. students working with trees (8.31) Setting out for outdoor training (8.36) brief shot training group on bicycles (8.46) Sowing seeds in the nursery. (9.25) Gvs trainees preparing beds and sowing seeds; c/u sign "Tsuga Heterophylla" (13.20); Lining out seedlings (13.24) Gvs same (15.33) pruning trees. (15.38) shots of young men pruning in the plantation. (16.22) Lopping off branches and cross-cutting a felled tree (16.28) gvs The End. (17.29)