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Title: SUMMER IN SCOTLAND

Reference number: 2750

Date: 1950c

Sponsor: Joint Production Committee of SEFA

Production company: Templar Film Studios

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10 mins

Description: A wee girl enjoys a summers day on the farm where she watches a shepherd and his border collie rounding up a flock of blackface sheep which are shorn and dipped.

One of a series of films introducing aspects of the four seasons in Scotland, made specially for use in primary schools.

See also refs. 2478, 2762 and 2479

Shotlist: Credits (0.07) gvs little girl and her west highland terrier at the door of her farmhouse and in the garden watching butterflies and bees (1.02) shots of the girl leaving the farmhouse with her father in a van (1.43) gvs her watching a shepherd and his border collies rounding up a flock of blackface sheep (3.00) shots of the sheep being shorn and dipped (4.29) gvs mechanical cropping in field (6.09) shots of girl's "Westie" puppy almost being run over by cropping machine (6.41) happy ending as dog is alright and runs to his mistress (6.54) ecs (7.13)