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Title: OSTRICHES AND OTHER ODDITIES

Reference number: 4197

Date: 1951c

Director: filmed by Nat and Nettie McGavin

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.55 mins

Description: Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victoria Falls.

Entered in the Scottish Amateur Film Festival of 1951.

Paper records held relating to this film at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive 2/3/29

Shotlist: Ostriches and Other Oddities, a film by Nat and Nettie McGavin gvs Port Elizabeth Town Hall gvs shops and town hall; gvs snake park; The coloured children have their own school gvs same and animals; Cape Town Parliamentary capital of the Union of South Africa; Town Hall; University; Groot Schuur Official residence of the Prime Minister, typical Cape Dutch Architecture gvs same, wildflowers; Sea Point A suburb of Cape Town gvs waterfront swimming, outdoors etc The Blue Train takes us North to Pretoria 1000 miles; The Vool River; Pretoria; Libertas gvs same Southern Rhodesia; The Victoria Falls; The Flying boat takes us home; The End (17.55)