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Title: FAMILY AT OVERDALE AND NAIRN, 1929

Reference number: 3229

Date: 1929

Director: [filmed by David Charles Bowser]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.21 mins

Description: Scenes of the two Bowser brothers playing at their home 'Overdale' in Dunblane with shots of the family at Nairn - featuring a pageant and a visit from the Boys Brigade.

Shotlist: Hubert dressed as a policeman playing with David and father in the garden at Overdale with brief shot of Granny -Annie Hope Henderson holding the infant Hope (0.30) shots of children playing in garden interspersed with shots of the construction of a small house on the estate, shots of picnic on the lawn, local Boys Brigade troop arrive in a charabanc with shots of their pipe band marching on the lawn(4.50) sea shore at Nairn with the brothers playing with bucket and spade(6.15) shots of a pageant? with the whole family assembled outside the front door with servants, the boys playing cowboys, shot of young tree being planted with Hope being held by her mother - Hope's tree, brief animated trick with matches with the end title sequence (10.21)