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Title: ORKNEY TO NEWCASTLE AND BERGEN

Reference number: 4678

Date: 1947

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.51 mins

Description: Amateur record of a Scout trip made from Orkney to Norway, via Newscastle. Includes footage of the Scouts camping in Newcastle and visiting the shipyards there.

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 number two of three See also refs. 4677 and 4679,

Shotlist: gvs Scouts boarding boat at Stromness (0.40) WONDERFUL SEND OFF FROM PARENTS AND FRIENDS AT STROMNESS PIER gvs same (1.12) HAPPY SMILES ON DECK DESPITE THE RAIN shots of Scouts singing in the rain, dressed in mackintosh capes (1.53) DEPARTURE FROM THURSO WITH SOME OF THE LOCAL GUIDES TO WISH US 'BON VOYAGE' shots of boys poking their heads from train windows and Girl Guides waving them off (2.45) INVERNESS STATION gvs same, luggage is transferred (3.09) EDINBURGH. SETTING OF (sic) FOR A TOUR ROUND THE CITY bus prepares to leave (3.36) SANDY GELLATLY, OUR BROTHER SCOUT, WHO HAS BEEN CONFINED TO BED FOR 11 YEARS ints hospital room where Scouts drink milk and eat biscuits and chat to Sandy (4.21) CHARLIE, TOMPO, PETER, DAVID AND HASTO, WEARING THEIR NEW KILTS they walk alongside train in station (4.37) ARRIVAL AT NEWCASTLE STATION AND GREETED BY SKIPPER gv same (4.57) NEPTUNE SHIPYARDS, NEWCASTLE, WHICH EMPLOYS 3500 WORKERS gvs same, including shots of huge timberyard, cranes and boys on board ships (7.52) NEWCASTLE TRAM CAR gvs same (8.33) OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE 33rd TROOP gvs same, Scouts go expoloring through countryside (9.52) MARCHING THROUGH GOSFORD TRAINING CAMP gvs same, includes shots of Dugald Paulin, Commissioner for training along with the camp warden (10.51) DEMONSTRATION OF SCOTTISH DANCING gvs same (11.52) GOSFORD PARK SWIMMING POOL shot of outdoor pool (12.36) shot of camp gateway with Scouts in front (13.04) ONE MILE OF FAIR GROUND NEWCASTLE gvs funfair (14.47) NEWCASTLE SCOUTS WAVING GOODBYE AT TYNE COMMISSION QUAY [underexposed] gvs send off (16.00) ON BOARD THE 'JUPITER'.... gvs on board, includes shots of a skipper of a small boat climbing aboard (19.09) shots of approach to Norway (20.25) ENTERING STAVENGAR, OUR FIRST PORT OF CALL gvs same (21.06) MEMBERS OF THE 25th GREET US AS WE ARRIVE AT BERGEN gvs same, including shots of Scouts outside church, where a short service in English was provided (22.16) TWO NORWEGIAN GIRLS IN NATIONAL COSTUME ALONG WITH SOME OF THE PARENTS AND FRIENDS gvs same (22.58) view over Norwegian town (24.33) MAIN SHOPPING CENTRE AT BERGEN gvs street scenes in town centre, includes view from top of meteorological office (26.51)