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Title: REID FAMILY FILM: CAMBUSBARRON PRIMARY SCHOOL

Reference number: 5727

Date: 1967c

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.14 mins

Description: A mixture of family 'home movie' footage but includes visuals of the old Cambusbarron primary school and its children, the construction of the new replacement school (opened 1967), and a brief shot of the documentary film-maker John Grierson.

Shotlist: removal van parked in front of building (removal from the old Cambusbarron school?). Various ext. m/s of this building. Children and adult lined up outside building posing for camera (pupils and teacher?). Brief shot children waving from coach window. Brief shot children disembarking from liner. Brief shot children in school playground. M/s snowman. Children crossing road with the aid of lollypop man on way to school, followed by them filling into school from playground, in line. Pan of the construction site of new school (?). Gv elderly men partaking in outdoor bowls. L/s over rooftops, m/s over car park. Brief shot John Grierson and others on pavement, then getting into car. Tea lady. M/s birds on garden bird table; dog. Winter scene in which two children throw snowballs at each other in front of a snowman. M/s children on playpark swings and in paddling pool during summer. C/u cats and dogs in garden. Building being demolished (old school building?). General view new road construction site.