COLLIESTON FILMS: Extracts
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Title: COLLIESTON FILMS: Extracts
Reference number: 3111
Date: 1950s
Director: [filmed by Nannie Taggart]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6 mins
Description:
Local events in the village of Collieston, Aberdeenshire - an auction sale, the preparation of the local fish dish "speldings" and the rolling of Easter eggs.
Nan Taggart and her mother both keen cinematographers, members of Aberdeen Cine Society. Large collection of family film. Taggart family owned a granite yard up until 1956 when they sold up, bought a farm at Marywell on Deeside and moved from the city to the rural life. Both mother, Nannie, and daughter Nan, chronicled the early years of their new lives on the farm on film. Nan Taggart and cousin Glen Ross interviewed about the films on THE WAY IT WAS, pc Grampian TV, Tx Oct/Nov '94.
Shotlist:
Please note Roll 2 only accessible on video format
Roll 1 [b/w] [The Roup]
No credits. gvs village roup in Collieston. Cars parked outside hall. Shots villagers going in, gvs inside hall during auction sale. gvs folk outside (3 mins)
Roll 2 [col] [Spelding and Easter eggs]
no credits. gvs Collieston village. Mary Grant in fishing boat, village scenes (1.01) Mary Grant and her husband Norman preparing local dish "speldings" haddock or cod gutted and washed, split and scraped and left on rock to dry (2.04) Nan's brother (Glen Ross) and the Paterson boys rolling painted Easter eggs down the sand dunes. Nan (donor) at top of dunes in glasses (2.34) Nannie Taggart reading magazine (donor's mother). Glen drinking milk (3.00)