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Title: HARRIS AND LEWIS, OUTER HEBRIDES

Reference number: 3771

Date: 1972, June

Director: [filmed by Stanley Mills]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.20 mins

Description: Mills family holiday on Harris and Lewis, taken at same time as commission to photograph seaweed processing by Alganate Industries.

See also ref. 3775

Stanley Mills was manager of Ralstons Commercial Photographers in Glasgow 1939 - 1974. Took films on family holidays and when out on photography commissions for Ralstons. Allocated himself 400ft per annum and took 28 films in all, in UK and overseas.

Shotlist: [No title] MacBrayne ferry Hebrides leaving Uig on Skye and en route arriving; Tarbert, Harris (0.48) gvs Mills family holiday [taken to co-incide with photographic commission from Alganate Industries] Gvs scenery and family enjoying the natural beauty. Shots lazy beds, peat banks. Brief shot ferry from Harris to Scalpay. Drinishader, car arrives at holiday cottage. Man lifting peats to dry them - they are piled high in the sunshine. Church at Rodel, brief shots Leverburgh and Manish; gvs scenery (4.23) commercial premises for processing seaweed [Alganate Industries factory at Keose, Lewis ] and seaweed beds. (4.41) cottage, Mills collects peat for fire. (4.57) old woman spinning watched by visitors (5.19) sheep clipping (5.42) visiting standing stones at Callanish and broch at Carloway (6.17) jetty at Hushinish looking across sound to Scarp, white house, scenery and coastline. (6.47 ) aboard steamer leaving Tarbert, views at sea. (7.31) Picnic on road home. Sunset (8.20)