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Title: DUNARA CRUISE 1937

Reference number: 2572

Date: 1937

Director: filmed by James Marshall

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.34 mins

Description: A cruise taken by the film-maker to the island of St. Kilda on the "Dunara Castle", sailing from Glasgow.

The empty sheds shown at Leverburgh had been built originally by Lord Leverburgh as a canning factory for fish to be sold in his company Macfisheries. At that time, there were only two inhabitants on St. Kilda, Alastair Gillies and Neil Ferguson, both St. Kildans, who lived on the island for the summer to look after the island (they also ran the post office) which was then owned by the Earl of Dumfries. As there was no sailing on a Sunday, the "Dunara Castle" sat alongside the pier at Lochboisdale on South Uist for the whole day.

Part of a collection of 9.5mm films by James Marshall of the Glasgow family- owned firm " Marshall's Semolina" founded by the film-maker's grandfather. See biography of founder of firm taken from DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH BUSINESS, Vol. II.

See also ref. 2573, 2574, 2575, 2576, 2577.

Shotlist: A Week's Cruise to the Hebrides. c/u shot of the ticket for the 10 day cruise costing £10 5s for a cabin for two. Shots of Glasgow docks as the "Dunara Castle" is loaded up and people board. Shots of the boat pulling away from the dock. Round Mull and Islay passing Port Askaig on Islay and on to Colonsay, shots of a small boat with passengers pulling away from "Dunara Castle", going back to Colonsay (they had possibly boarded the boat to take a drink in the bar). Iona gvs celtic cross and Abbey. Shot of "Dunara Castle" at anchorage and Bunessan gvs coast of Mull, Tiree, Skye passing the Heb shot of the ship "The Hebrides"( which did a similar sort of cruise) gvs people on shore on Skye gvs Dunvegan pier and Dunvegan Castle. Shots of Leverburgh pier on south Harris with shots of empty sheds. Shots of boat arriving at pier and unloading. And up to Scalpay gvs pier, people on pier and walking up the road to houses. St. Kilda l/s St. Kilda taken from the boat. Shot of the crew lowering the lifeboat for the passengers going ashore. Shots of the jetty at St. Kilda. gvs Post Office and Stac Levenish shot of cleits for drying hay Back to Lochboisdale shots of captain and boat arriving at pier [dark] and home, shot of the flag of the boat The End.(c 10mins)