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Title: MONTGOMERY FAMILY HOLIDAYS

Reference number: 2825

Date: 1928 - 1930*

Director: [filmed by Frances Hedges Montgomery]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.00 mins

Description: The Montgomery family on the beach at St. Andrews and at the grandfather's home 'Penniwells' at Elstree, London. [Part of collection by Frances Montgomery, burgh councillor in St. Andrews c1929. Refs. 2821-2832]. [See also refs. 2821, 2822, 2823,2826, 2827, 2828, 2829, 2830, 2831].

Credits: [assisted by family nanny / companion Miss Margaret Grant Smith]

Shotlist: Donor's notes - 'Penniwells' - home of John Coutts Duffus and his sister-in-law (donor's grandmother) at Elstree, North London, and site of their stud of world known Shetland ponies.

No credits. brief ls man addressing crowd from platform (0.06) gvs family bathing in open-air pool at Alvie (2.29) gvs family on beach by St. Andrews (3.51) *1928 gvs family at 'Penniwells'; children arrive by car, and leave by coach; shots of a boy being led on Shetland pony (5.50) Mrs Montgomery with cine camera, shots of family and garden (6.41) shots of Mrs Montgomery and family in disguise larking about in costume (7.15) shot of car arriving (7.24) shot of Tower of London [dense] with changing of the guard (8.00)