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Title: WINTER ON THE WATER: The Story of a Winter Day's Trip on the Firth of Clyde

Reference number: 3618

Date: 1934*

Sponsor: The Scottish Travel Association

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.17 mins

Description: A travelogue of a cruise on the Firth of Clyde from Gourock to Ardrishaig.

Shotlist: credits (0.07) On Gourock pier one bright November morning. shot of passengers boarding the "Loch Fyne" steamer (.21) Under way down the Firth shot of water Supplies for the Wilds of Argyll shot of boxes of supplies on board (.56) Our first call - Dunoon brief shot of Dunoon then on to Rothesay on the green Isle of Bute shots of Rothesay as steamer approaches (1.53) the hills of Cowal brief shot hills through the Kyles of Bute Colintraive shot of pier at Colintraive (2.41) shots from steamer as it approaches the narrows (3.23) Passing Loch Riddon shots same (3.40) Sheltered Tighnabruaich and a Versatile Postman shot of Tigh-Na-Bruaich pier and of postman throwing rope to steamer, passengers disembark (4.27) Rounding Ardlamont Point into Loch Fyne shot of same The peaks of Arran are bathed in sunshine shot of same shot of Tarbert pier Loch Fyne herrings. Even our skipper helps to load them for the mails must not be late. shots of barrels of herring being loaded onto steamer (5.53) East Loch Tarbert is almost landlocked shots of pier at Ardrishaig (6.28) Journey's end for us but the 'bus for Oban is waiting for those whose journeying is not yet done brief shot of bus waiting on pier and of bags being unloaded from steamer (6.59) For Information about Scotland apply to: The Scottish Travel Association 20, York Place, Edinburgh, 1. The End (7.18)