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Title: WOTHERSPOON HUNTING HOLIDAYS

Reference number: 3566

Date: 1936*/ 1939*/ 1940*/ 1946*

Director: [filmed by Robert Wotherspoon]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.45 mins

Description: Family holidays over ten years, with footage of birdlife on Bass Rock, deer hunting and fishing. [See also Ref 3565]

Robert Wotherspoon was Provost of Inverness and Director of Caledonian Associated Cinemas.

Shotlist: no title [COL 1946*] shots taken from boat of Bass Rock; gannets and guillemots nesting on its cliffs, gillemots and cormorants diving into the surf (0.34) shots taken on rock of gannets and of cameramen climbing down very steep cliff with camera (1.10) shots of birds, and of boy picking up eggs from nests, and putting them back and of children holding baby birds (1.51) shot of children with woman and man (possibly lighthouse keeper?) walking towards gun/ cannon on rock face (2.00) children on ponies at riding school (?), trotting with man accompanying them on bicycle (3.46) [BW 1936*] family in garden (boys and man dressed in kilts) (4.29) shots of men and boys holding guns standing beside dead deer on hillside with shots of them standing by it; dragging it across moor (6.25) girl with hunting dogs on a lead and shots of children walking over moorland (7.28) shots of ext. of house, couple dressed in formal dress, man in top hat and tails (8.24) [1940*] children holding fishing rods and sitting beside an arranged display of fish that had been caught (9.55) men and women looking through a telescope, and through binoculars (10.42) [COL 1939*] [image underexposed] to (11.36) shots of men holding guns, walking to camera, and shots of them getting into a rowing boat (12.20) shots of 'shooting break' car, and shots of loch [underexposed] (13.02) very fast panning shots of snow covered lochside [underexposed] (13.40) [slightly underexposed] family sitting outside [hunting?] lodge, children holding stags head, children in rowing boat, in garden in fancy dress (16.30) shots of lodge taken from loch (16.45)