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Title: BOTHWELLHAUGH - MEMORIAL CAIRN & REUNION

Reference number: 3651

Date: 1978 - 1980

Director: [filmed by Joe Griffiths]

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm + super 8mm ?

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 34.00 mins

Description: Amateur film shot on 8mm between 1978 and 1980 by Joe Griffiths concerning the planning, building and opening of a cairn by the Bothwellhaugh Residents Committee, on the shores of the loch in Strathclyde Country Park. Reel 3 contains sound footage with Joe Griffiths interviewing former villagers at the cairn memorial day. This cairn was built to commemorate the former mining village of Bothwellhaugh which was evacuated to make way for the man-made loch where the cairn now stands.

Please note Reel 3 only is accessible on tape [Reels 1 - 2 are on film master only]

Shotlist: Reel 1 (std. 8mm silent)
[shotlisted from speed corrected tape, manual control track]

brief shot of "Bothwellhaugh" sign with villagers beside the loch, panning shots of village assembled for a group photograph, summers day - gvs of villagers at loch-side, having picnics, ending with shot of sailing boats on the loch (6.05) [black spacer] (6.16) c/u's of villagers at the picnic mostly shots of older villagers, shots of children playing, ending with two boys with Scotland 1978 World Cup Football strips posing for the camera (8.16) [black spacer] (8.29) gvs of the picnic continue, including shots of youths playing swingball (10.29) [black spacer] (10.46) Massey Ferguson digger with trailer full of large stones being emptied beside the loch with a full skip nearby, followed by shot of truck picking up the skip, tracking shot from car of digger with empty trailer arriving at a derelict building possibly a castle set in the countryside where men and digger load the trailer with large stones, shots beside the loch showing the emptying from the diggers trailer of soil for the foundations of the cairn beside the hole in the ground where the cairn is situated, ending with c/u of sign written in chalk on blackboard "Bothwellhaugh Reunion 1979 Strathclyde Park" (14.40) [black spacer] (14.53) shots of older villagers at the half finished cairn with a plastic box - time capsule (?) - being placed in the middle of the cairn (15.44)


Reel 2 (super 8mm silent)
[shotlisted from speed corrected tape, manual control track]

crowd gathering around finished Cairn at the opening ceremony on a dull day, speaker using a microphone followed by unveiling of plaque with a c/u of the plaque, wreath is laid followed by piper marching around the cairn, more wreaths and speakers mostly elderly men, people posing for photographs at the cairn, panning shot of the loch, more people posing at the cairn, ending with shots of small sailing boats on the loch (6.40) [black spacer] (7.02) shots of people relaxing around the cairn, ending with sign of Bothwellhaugh at loch side (8.21)


Reel 3 (super 8mm sound, commag)
[shotlisted from VHS copy, manual control track]
Joe Griffiths interviewing former residents of village about their life and homes in Bothwellhaugh. Sunny day at the cairn in Strathclyde Country Park. A reunion day. (0.06.41) Joe with microphone acting as MC for reunion dinner/dance. (0.07.19) Gv's of dancing in a hall followed by a piper finishing with the final dance. (0.10.03) Small group at cairn on Armistice day with woman giving a speech then laying a wreath. (0.11.19) Armistice march in Bellshill with pipe band leading the procession through a town. Gv's of various groups and general public. Youth wing of Territorial Army, Boys Brigade along with a brass band, Cubs and Scouts, flute band, Girl Guides (0.13.16) Brief shot of outdoor service. (0.13.22) The End.

[Note: The town in reel 3 is Bellshill, with the march going along Main Street to the cenotaph outside Bellshill academy. ]