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Title: STRAIN FAMILY FILM - GLASGOW

Reference number: 3787

Date: 1932

Director: [filmed by Clifford Strain]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.04 mins

Description: Scenes on the river Clyde, a wedding, and in the Strain family home in Glasgow's West End.

See also ref. 1693

Shotlist: NO TITLE. *1934 shot liner in shipyard. The River Clyde besides being the source of many activities shows a never ending variety of moods. At "Queen's Dock", Glasgow a coaster is being loaded with dross for Northern Ireland. gv's dockside LMS coal wagons etc. (1.12) Sometimes the river is dour and stormy. gv's estuary. Spring day soft and warm. family aboard small launch 'Nonie' (3.01) Somerville, Elland 1932 Auntie Nellie Laura Beatrice Strain [mother of CS] with her sister Nellie and husband Ernest Casson; brief shot of maids, one carrying dog (5.17) 9 Westbourne Gardens, Glasgow 1932 Mother [Laura Strain] dispensing coffee Dark interior shots of same. Laura Strain and sister Mildred leave house. Victor and Mildred Day, with Laura Strain in hat, in street [see 3783] c/up of Clifford Stain in shot immediately before intertitle In the Gardens, Auntie Florrie Mother Paddy Also seen are Roy Strain and Cheeky Strain. (6.31) Gv's dogs Roy and Cheekie and Laura and CS. CS sitting on bench in Westbourne gardens. (7.42) Laura Strain (in fur collar), Mr and Mrs Day leaving church, older couple not in wedding dress being showered with confetti. Possibly CS's Auntie Florrie and her husband ? Clegg.(8.04)