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Title: CALL OF THE CAMPSIES

Reference number: 4340

Date: 1946*

Director: [filmed by David Sime]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.42 mins

Description: Hill walking through the Campsies with the Scottish Countryside Club.

David Sime was a pharmacist, photographer and President of the Scottish Countryside Club, which promoted the enjoyment of nature and the outdoors, hillwalking and rambling, as well as holding social events such as an annual concert and garden parties, with much hilarity in evidence. The club travelled all over Scotland, but many walks were held near to the central belt, with outings to locations such as the Trossachs and Loch Lomond proving popular. Mr Sime’s films depicted traditional industries such as farming and fishing, as well as scenic landscapes and walks. Many of these landscapes remain unchanged, but the style and the gear of the walkers is very different to the equipment of today’s adventurers.

Shotlist: Title (0.15); MILGUY, WHERE EVERY LADY HAS HER SLAVEY, WHO'S TAUGHT TO CALL THE PLACE MILNGAVIE (0.22); shots of a village (Milngavie ?), man in a kilt talking to a Policeman (0.40); a group of people preparing for a hill walk; pan across group; c/u legs and boots (1.43); landscape (1.54); MUGDOCK (1.56); gvs of landscape, people walking, shots of an INN with a handwritten sign saying 'SORRY NO BEER'. people walking up a hill (4.04); THE SPOUT OF BALLAGAN (4.06); SPRING (4.17); waterfall (4.41); SUMMER (4.43); men climbing the face of a waterfall (5.18); WINTER (5.18); the waterfall is frozen (5.33); people having a picnic (5.59); JENNY'S LUM (6.01); water spraying, frozen water (6.41); THE EARL'S SEAT Earl's Seat; group walking up ferny slope; man fishing; people wearing kilts; children fishing; 'James Wricht Well' (8.33) group looking out from a cairn (8.42) sheep; gvs of landscape; Sunset (9.42).