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Title: LAND OF ROBERT BURNS

Reference number: 4684

Date: 1956

Director: d. Joe Mendoza

Production company: British Transport Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.25 mins

Description: Places and landmarks in Ayrshire relating to the life of Burns.

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

Credits: ph. Robert Paynter
ed. Margot Fleischman
cutting asst. Pat Jones
cam. asst. Cyril Moorhead
asst. d. Ken Cooper
w. Maurice Lindsay
m. arr. & cond. Cedric Thorpe Davie
m. perf. The Saltire Singers, Duncan Robertson, Margaret Fraser, Constance Mullay, Frederick Westcott
rec. Ken Cameron
p. Stewart McAllister
in charge of production Edgar Anstey

Shotlist: credits (0.28) l/s Arran (0.39) gvs ext. Burns Cottage, Alloway (1.03) gvs Alloway, incl. Burns' House Hotel, Brig O'Doon and Burns' "Greek" Monument (1.14) gvs Mount Oliphant Farm, near Ayr, including horse-drawn cart, children at work and playing on farm (2.26) gvs Kirkoswald incl. Burns' School (2.32) gvs Dunure Harbour with trawlers in background, and castle (3.02) gvs ext. Culzean Castle and ruined Crossraguel Abbey (3.22) gvs Lochlea Farm (3.33) gvs barley being harvested at Lochlea by horse-drawn reaper (5.40) gvs Tarbolton, incl. Bachelors' Club (5.55) gvs couples leaving on Western SMT bus for Ayr to go dancing (6.23) gvs Mossgiel Farm incl. herd of Ayrshire cows being milked in a modern milking parlour (8.02) gvs Afton Water in May (11.39) gvs Mauchline (11.49) gvs Burns' House, Kirk and Graveyard, Poosie Nancie's Inn (12.29) gvs Mauchline curling stone factory (12.40) pan l/s Kilmarnock, with steam train crossing viaduct (13.01) pan up/down printing shop where Burns' 1st. edition published (13.11) gvs Kilmarnock Cross (13.20) gvs goods being unloaded at Irvine harbour (13.28) gvs Prestwick Airport, with passengers leaving BOAC jet (13.39) gvs Ayr, incl. Sandgate, Tam O'Shanter Inn, Auld Brig, Ayr rail station, holiday-makers on beach (14.12) gvs golf course and Turnberry Hotel (14.29) gvs Ellisland Farm, incl. Farmers' family and tractor (15.13) gvs annual "Guid Nychburris" Festival, incl. horses riding into Dumfries and cheering crowds (15.45) gvs Dumfries, incl. butchers' shop, county hotel and jail (16.05) gvs Dumfries' cattle market (16.35) gvs Globe Inn, Dumfries, incl. cinema poster on wall advertising films for Lyceum (?) Cinema (17.22) gvs farming family having evening meal by oil lamp (18.44) gvs sunset on the Solway Firth (19.07) gvs Burns' House, Burns' Grave and Burns' Monument in Dumfries (21.03) gvs Burns' Monument in Irvine, in background with boys high jumping in foreground (21.14) Burns' Monument, Ayr (21.23) gvs Burns Monuments in London, Canada and New Zealand (21.32) ecs (21.39)