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Title: MARYWELL 1960 - 1971

Reference number: 3530

Date: 1960 / 1971

Director: [filmed by Nan Taggart]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 28.13 mins

Description: Family film with mostly shots of Marywell caravan park.

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 people outside building, shots of cars driving by (0.21) shot of motor home, tracking shots of motor home swaying from side to side on road (0.54) shot of sign for Marywell Caravan Site (1.01) shot of motor home driving into Marywell (1.32) shot of pig drinking from basin of water,shot of pig in pen drinking water and eating from trough (1.50) shots of baby girls playing with toys, shots of girls with parents (3.16) shot of girl with seashell at her ear, shot of young girl carrying suitcase (3.39) shot of gardens of caravan site, shot of young girl with watering can (3.55) shots of baby girls in pram, shot of toddler on swing (4.28) shot of paper mache float outside caravan site, shots of students with float, front shots of float, shots of students filling up van under float with water (5.22) shots of children taking tea with plastic tea set (5.43) shots of snow storm scenes at Marywell caravan site, shots of people shovelling snow, pan shot of trees with Christmas lights strung through them (7.11) shots of kittens playing in garden, shots of kittens and their mother drinking milk and eating from saucers on ground, shot of young boy chasing kittens (8.10) shots of family dinner over Festive period, shot of little boy wearing kilt (9.28) shot of little boy being helped to cut cake (9.34) Brown Trout caught at Dyce Aberdeen(River Don) on 8th May 1963 by Stanley C Brown of London. shot of brown trout on grass(9.44)2 feet long, 12 and half inch girth 5lbs 6ozs weight. shots of man with trout(10.14)shot of man digging in field, shots of trench being filled with earth, gv's of caravan site(10.56)shots of men repairing roof(11.25)shots of children playing with ball in garden(12.53)shots of man fumigating broiler house(13.28)shots of digger at work lifting earth(14.20)shots of family leaving caravan(14.44)shot of aircraft, shots of man lying down in caravan, shots of man cutting grass with mower, shots of men and women tending to grass(15.43)shots of family walking in street, ext of Glenkiddie Arms hotel, shots of men having a dram outside hotel(16.37)tracking shot from car of church in distance, shots of famly walking round grave yard, shots of family members boarding aircraft, shots of aircraft driving down runway(18.18)shots of men taking roof off summer house in back garden(19.12)shot of woman with suitcase coming out of house and going into waiting taxi(19.36)shot of well at caravan site, gv's of caravan site(20.32)shots of Daimler car manouvering(20.52)shots of water pipe being installed in caravan site(22.18)shots of Duthie Park, shots of small peddle boats and rafts in park pond(23.42)On Your 50th Anniversary. shots of sign of Royal Burgh of Kintore, shots of fields and daffodils, tracking shots from car of town and fields surrounding town, ext shots of Kintore parish church(25.10)shots of people leaving church(25.27)shot of photograph of couple in frame, 50 Years Congratualtions Granny and Grandad. shots of photographs of family together and of couple cutting cake(26.07)shots of children in garden with hamsterm shot of child on bogey cart(26.58)shot of couple sitting on bench, shot of family sitting on bench. The End(28.13)