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Title: CRIEFF HYDRO WEEKEND

Reference number: 2499

Date: 1949*

Director: [filmed by SAAC]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.52 mins

Description: Made during the SAAC's annual film-making weekend at Crieff Hydro, the film shows a family enjoying a holiday at the hotel.

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Shotlist: No credits Family arriving by car at Crieff Hydro Hotel; at check in, "father" is very frail (1.44). Saturday 20th May Mother and daughter enjoying day out in local park, pipe band dressed in whites, obstacle course intercut with shots of the father visiting a physiotherapist (3.00). Ints lounge of Hydro hotel, knitting and reading as well as snooker and table tennis, exts croquet in grounds of hotel. (4.01). Dinner dancing in hotel, card playing in residents lounge intercut with shots of physiotherapy (5.38). Hotel guests using sports facilities, riding horses over jumps, man on exercise bike, swimming pool, intercut with the father having further physiotherapy with a device clamped to his knee, and his foot in a bath of water with wires attached to his toe (8.04). Afternoon tea in lounge (8.36). Family depart hotel, father not using his cane (8.52)