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Title: HIGHLAND WINTER

Reference number: 3063

Date: 1973

Director: d. Allister Brebner

Sponsor: Highlands and Islands Development Board

Production company: Tree Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.22 mins

Description: The birds and wildlife of the Highlands.

Credits: ph. Allister Brebner
w. Daniel McKinney
nar. James Sutherland
m. John Maxwell Geddes
sd. rec. Louis Kramer
effects by Bill Sinclair and Charles Palmer
ed. John Gow

Shotlist: title (.06) gvs seabirds flying over sea and c/u migrating seabirds including the Turnstone, Shore Feeders, Widgeon, and geese (2.11) c/u redwing in rowan tree (2.44) c/u bullfinch and blackbird eating rowan berries (2.56) l/s herd of red deer (3.16) shots of highland trees in their autumn colours intercut with c/u of golden eye (?) duck on water (5.11) visuals winter landscape (6.16) shots of coutts and widgeons on partly frozen lochan (7.02) seabirds sitting on frozen lochside (7.32) c/u robin redbreast sitting on fir tree (7.50) shot of roe deer in winter forest (8.00) shots of birds in blizzards (8.25) visuals winter landscape with shot of robin, and shots of red deer stags walking on snow covered ground (10.22) c/u buzzard (10.48) visuals snow covered mountain top and c/u ptarmigan in white winter plumage (11.48) c/u of ice beginning to thaw (12.14) c/u ptarmigan with plumage beginning to change to summer colours (12.49) c/u buds on trees (13.35) herons in their nests (13.53) shots of hooper swans (14.11) shots of coutts and grebes (including Slavonian grebe) (14.46) visuals landscape in spring with shots of red deer hinds grazing (15.24) shot of heron and its nest with young in it (15.31) shots of red throated diver (16.02) shots of buzzard in flight (16.22) ecs