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Title: KINTYRE

Reference number: 2767

Date: 1955c

Director: filmed by Iain Dunnachie

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.30 mins

Description: Scenes of life on the Mull of Kintyre including shots of holiday makers and local inhabitants. Shots of farming, fishing and mining at the Argyll Colliery and general views of Campbeltown.

Entered in the 'On Scotland' category of the Scottish Amateur Film Festival of 1956.

Credits: With the assistance of Films of Scotland Committee and Scottish Central Film Library
ph. Iain Dunnachie
sc. Robert McLeish
comm. s. Hugh McPhee

Shotlist: Credits, including map of the peninsular (0.27) Gv's of Kintyre coastline (0.58) Gv's of holiday-makers and children playing on beach (1.17) Ext. of general store (1.20) C/u of adverts in shop window (1.26) Gv's of holiday-makers by caravan with mother washing clothes, children playing with toys (2.14) Gv's of Carradale Forest (2.35) Gv's of sheep and Ayrshire cattle on farm (3.04) Gv's of exterior of dairy (3.24) Gv's of boy catching fish on shore (3.49) Gv's of shoreline and countryside (4.21) Gv's of lighthouse at Mull of Kintyre(4.21) Gv's of chickens, hen house, and graveyard (5.09) Gv's of main street Campbeltown (5.23) Gv's of Campbeltown and its harbour (6.04) Gv's of coal being loaded onto boat (6.26) Gv's of Argyle colliery, Machrahanish, including Mavor and Coulson machinery (7.05) Gv's of coal being conveyed to boat by lorries (7.17) Gv's of Tarbert and harbour with fishermen mending nets (7.59) Gv's of ferry and sailing boat ( 8.51) Gv's of cargo being winched onto ferry [the M.V. Lochiel] at West Loch Tarbert, including motor cycle (9.30) Credits.