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Title: CINE CLUB CAPERS 1953 - 1957

Reference number: 3507

Date: 1953 / 1957

Director: [filmed by Nan Taggart]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.45 mins

Description: Film featuring members of a Cine Club in the 1950's. A Christmas event and a picnic at the beach and at Marywell are featured.

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: [b&w]Dec, 1954 Cine-Club Capers shots of various club members inside the club house (0.57) shots of film being taken of a young boy sitting down being given a catapult (1.32) shots of a jumble sale, shot of shoe stand, shots of bric-a-brac stall and clothes stalls in the hall (2.44) shots of women and men sitting down at a long table having tea during the jumble sale (2.56) shots of private buses leaving the bus depot, shots of families having a picnic by the sea at Collieston (3.28) shots of men racing each other along the sandshot of young girl kicking small ball with woman filming in the background, shots of young boy and girl running toward their mothers (3.47) shots of young men in trunks drying off after a swim (3.56) shots of people playing musical chairs at Christmas party (4.15) shots of two men dressed up as women, shots of men and women sitting in lines and drinking cups of tea and singing along to a song (5.00) shot of raffle prizes, shots of tombola being spun (5.12) shot of raffle prize being held aloft with song about Santa Claus in the background (5.15) [col]shots of men in a field erecting a marquee with flags on top of each main tent pole (5.54) shots of young boy playing with child's deckchair, shots of men hammering in tent pegs, shot of young boy pulling on tent rope, shot of fully erected marquee (6.31) shot of scarecrow being made outside the marquee, shot of child on swing, shot of children in inflatable paddling pool (7.02) shots of people throwing chunks of wood at the scarecrow, shots of people skipping, gv's of people having a picnic on the grass surrounding marquee (8.02) further shots of people relaxing in the sunshine next to the marquee (8.45)