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Title: NEXT STOP - SCOTLAND

Reference number: 4371

Date: 1968

Director: d. Kenneth Fairbairn

Sponsor: British Travel Association, Scottish Tourist Board, David MacBrayne Ltd, Caledonian Steam Packet Co. and Motorail

Production company: British Transport Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 29.09 mins

Description: Made to promote Scottish tourism, two London couples on their sojourn around Scotland, with the intention of highlighting some of the most attractive aspects of the country, and of promoting certain transport companies

The British Transport Film Collection is preserved by the British Film Institute.

Credits: ph. Ronald Craigen, Trevor Roe
ed. Bob Debenham
sc. and p. John Shearman
unit manager Donald Washboune
p. manager Ruth Pratt
ass. Keth Heckler, Vernon Lyton, Tim Piper
nar. Duncan Carse, John Stockbridge
composer Edward Williams
conductor raymond Jones
in charge of p. Edgar Anstey
made by British Transport Films for British Travel Association, Scottish Tourist Board, David MacBrayne Ltd, Caledonian Steam Packet Co. and Motorail

Shotlist: opening title. Follows two London couples packing and departing on their motorail trip to Scotland. Includes many shots of them on train - in dining carriage, sleeper compartment etc. (5.08) cars are driven off motorail carriage at Perth Station; the couples drive through the Perthshire countryside (7.24) Aviemore hotel and chalet area (7.40) int. swimming pool (7.56) ice-skating in rink (8.13) boats in Oban harbour (8.41) Cairngorm chairlift and summit (9.15) shots on board the ferry ship Columba, running from Loch Arn (?), mainland, to Craigmuir, Mull (10.47) skiing on dry ski slope, Aviemore; boating on Loch Morlich (11.32) car driving through highland countryside, boards Caledonian MacBrayne ferry en route to Arnisdale and Skye (12.54) pony trekking at Newtonmore (13.39) car driving through Skye Landscape, stops briefly to pick raspberries; gvs Cuillins (14.55) gvs Loch an Eilean (15.32) cars and bull boards ferry "Hebrides", en route for Uig, Lochmaddy and Tarbert - ferry arrives in Tarbert Port (16.56) picnic in car parked by a Harris beach (18.04) water-skiing at Loch Earnhead (19.05) onboard RMS Hebrides again; car driving alongside Loch Lomond, arrives in Luss (20.40) brief gv Portree, Skye; small ferry "Broadford" to Kyle of Lochalsh; ext. Lochalsh Hotel (21.55) tracking shots from boat travelling down the Clyde, shipyards and cranes in view; int. "Magnorton's" (?) textile factory, Pitlochry (25.01) shots of firth of Clyde steamers, "Bute" and others (25.27) int. Blair Atholl whisky distillery (26.04) cars driving off the "Glen Sannox" ferry at Arran (26.50) 'entertainments' on a firth of Clyde paddle steamer - highland dancing, Jamaican steel band etc. Int. bar on steamer (28.29) ecs (29.09)