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Title: AUTUMN: A Study in Colour

Reference number: 3953

Date: 1949

Director: filmed by G. H. Higginson, Bolton, Lancs

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.47 mins

Description: Symphony in colour. A series of beautiful autumn landscape studies, interspersed with poetry from Keats' 'Ode to Autumn'.

Prizewinner at Scottish Amateur Film Festival, 1949. Entered in general interest category.

Shotlist: ecs (0.03) gvs landscapes, hills, roads, rivers, haystacks, copper-coloured leaves on the turn (1.16) O, the sweet melancholy of the time when gently, ere the heart appeals, the year shines in the fatal beauty of decay pan across Autumnal landscapes, fields, c/u shrubs (2.36) At my feet I saw the lake/ island, promontories/ gleaming bays,a universe of nature's fairest forms gvs landscapes, bridge across river, trees (6.10) YELLOW, AND BLACK, AND PALE, AND HECTIC RED...... gvs landscapes, including house covered in trailing leaves (7.00) SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS gvs landscapes, lakeside views (7.22) WHEN BEECHES DRIP IN BROWNS AND DUNS gvs same, more lakeside views, with reeds and rushes (9.47)