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Title: GAIRLOCH AND POOLEWE

Reference number: 3775

Date: 1961*

Director: [filmed by Stanley Mills]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.49 mins

Description: Mills family holiday to Gairloch and Poolewe; the family visit Inverewe Garden in Ross-shire.

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.

See also ref. 3771

Shotlist: No title. Mills family on motoring holiday. Gv's scenery as car rounds bends; sheep being driven along road by a shepherd holding a fleece; hill swathed in mist. (2.18) sign "The National Trust for Scotland Inverewe"; Inverewe gardens, child playing amongst flowers in front of Inverewe House. (4.02) angling, beaches and coastline around Gairloch. Deer at car window and being fed by Mrs Mills. (7.44) scenery and brief shot construction site for dam?/hydro scheme?; steam train (8.25) Road building crew of 3 men drilling into rock and using pick axes to clear edge to new road alongside crofthouse (without ear protection; possibly at Glenuig)(9.59) brief shot postie, and road crew stop to chat to elderly crofter passing by. (10.49)