SCOTS ON SKIS
Full length video
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Title: SCOTS ON SKIS
Reference number: 3898
Date: 1962c
Production company: Park Films Production
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 10.57 min
Description: This instructional film follows a Glasgow family from their first day skiing on a small local slope, to skiing in the Cairngorms. [Also held by the B.F.I.]
Credits:
nar. Bill Jack
m. w. and played by The Talismen
Shotlist: ocs (0.32) tracking shot from car in Glasgow; tracking shot from snow-lined country road (0.44) family walk from car; gvs skiing (1.11) skiers using tow rope (1.28) shots of family climbing up golf course slope; Bill, Mary and children, Gavin and Scott (2.03) family demonstrate putting on gear; moving on snow; turning using a "kick turn"; how to get up from a fall, with skis still attached (3.59) Mary demonstrates snowplough stop; turning; Bill attempts "Christiana" turns (5.01) family practice turning on a slalom course using bamboo stakes (6.10) family move to the Campsie Fells; shots of skiers on hillside; family climbing hillside; Bill shows why the lower ski goes on first (7.35) gvs family skiing downhill; c/u safety strap used to secure ski to boot (9.30) shot of Caringorms (9.34) tracking shot from bus, ints. passengers, brief shot Glenmore Lodge Centre (9.55) skiers using ski tow and chairlift (10.26) gvs skiing; beginners class, v/o mentions both Norwegian and Austrian styles; brief shot professional skier in slalom race; shot of chairlift (10.45) Bill puts skis in trunk; ecs (10.57)