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Title: IN NORWAY AND LEAVING

Reference number: 4677

Date: 1947

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 19.10 mins

Description: Amateur record of a Scout trip to Norway. Includes footage of Bergen, Sandane, Loen and various fjords. Includes footage of Scout Camps.

Orkney Scouts trip to Norway, June 1947. Photocopy of log book on file. Kelday interviewed on Way It Was, Programme 101, 1998. This film is no. two of three See also refs. 4678 and 4679,

Shotlist: views over fjord and town (0.35) TOP OF FLOYEN WHICH IS 1050 FEET HIGH gvs crowds of Scouts milling about here (0.59) PARENTS, SCOUTS AND FRIENDS OUTSIDE THE RESTAURANT, WHERE WE RECEIVED A CIVIC WELCOME FROM THE BERGEN COUNTY COUNCIL gvs same (1.56) PILLOW FIGHT IN PROGRESS WITH HASTO AND ONE OF THE NORWEGIAN SCOUTS [very underexposed, hardly visible] (2.17) shot of landscape at midnight with a full moon (2.30) LEAVING FOR CAMP gvs docks and Scouts queuing to leave (3.15) ON BOARD SHIP WHICH TOOK US ALONG WITH 500 NORWEGIAN SCOUTS A 15 HOUR SAIL THROUGH THE FJORDS TO SANDANE; APPROACHING SANDANE, ROCKETS FIRED FROM THE SHIP BEFORE ARRIVAL gvs Scouts on board ship, bearing flags and crowds of people lining the docks (6.18) MR. WILSON, ALONG WITH THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF BERGEN, LEADS THE PARADE gvs same (6.36) MORNING INSPECTION gvs same, on campsite (7.16) VIEW OF CAMP, WHERE NEARLY 1000 BOYS SPENT 10 GLORIOUS DAYS gvs camp, boys preparing food, paddling (8.05) BATHING PARADE IN GLORIOUS SUNSHINE, BUT OBSERVE THE SNOW ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP gvs same (8.52) PARADE OF LOBSTER BACKS, PETER DOES HIS BEST TO EASE THE PAIN shots of soothing lotion being applied (9.21) ONE OF THE NUMEROUS WATERFALLS ALONG THE NORDFJORD gvs same (10.03) LOEN... gvs hillside, partly fallen away (10.36) CAMP TEA PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAYS OF ROY THOMSON AND JOHN BEWS gvs same, there is country dancing (11.44) PARADE OF HIGH COMMISSIONER AND HIS STAFF gvs same (12.47) FLAG PARADE gvs same (13.59) SCOUTMASTER KARL OTTO PAULSEN ENJOYS A SNACK? shot of him eating some baked beans? (14.12) END OF CAMP and presentation of prizes (14.41) SAILING THROUGH THE SONGEFJORD ON OUR WAY TO BERGEN gvs same (15.17) ANSCO gvs people posing for camera, goodbye scenes at docks and shots from departing boat (19.10)