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Title: STRATHDON AND GLENBUCHAT JULY - SEPT. 1946

Reference number: 3499

Date: 1946

Director: [filmed by Nan Taggart]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.37 mins

Description: Family film showing family members at church, young daughter at college and even younger children at nursery school. Black and white footage of a younger family members school sports day.

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, Grampian TV, transmitted October / November 1994.

Shotlist: [col] shots of ruined castle at Strathdon and Glenbuchat, ext shot of large manse house, shots of family outside the Kildrummy Hotel (0.43) shots of family walking up a lane heading towards the church (1.22) shots of men in a cemetery (1.31) gv's of hillside and fields(1.43)shot of young woman in house porch, shot of collie dog, general shots of family walking along fields and visiting other people, shot of man with umbrella (2.11) shots of the sky over a loch, shots of hills surrounding the loch (2.18) family shots outside a manse/church (2.33) dull shots of men and women leaving church (3.31) [b&w]shots of two boys, each in a barrel, fighting each other with boxing gloves, being watched by crowd school boys (3.42) shots of boys playing tug o' war at school sports day (3.57) shots of boys in running race, sprinting to the finish (4.00) l/s of boy performing the high jump (4.05) shots of boys competing in relay race (4.19) shots of boys in flat race of 400 metres (4.36) shots of boys on slippery log fighting each other with pillows (4.39) shots of younger boys in all white sports clothes, shots of boys in three-legged race and wheelbarrow race(4.58) shots of young girls at nursery school dancing outside and playing leap frog in front of their parents and friends (5.19) shots of very young boys and girls outside a nursery school building (6.04) [col]shots of college students talking and laughing outside Varsity college buildings, pan up/down of the college tower and the quadrant below (7.22) [b&w]shot of women at work in an office with male colleagues laughing and joking (7.37)