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Title: ECS PICNIC 1960 - THE FARNE ISLANDS

Reference number: 6399

Date: 1969*

Director: filmed by Douglas Lornie

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.20 minsc

Description: Amateur overview of an Edinburgh Cine Society outing by boat to the Farne islands. General views of coast as seen from boat. Views on land of birds nesting and small monastry.

Shotlist: No title, two wooden rowing boats on beach People on rocks watching boats in sea. C/u boat name 'True Vine'. Camera on boat, c/u passengers, gvs sea breaking on rocky coastlines. [Wobbly] shots of birds (puffins?) on rocks, red and white lighthouse. People on boat, one man changes film in his camera. Approaching harbour, people fishing from pier. Disembarking from boat, people climb up stairs. Gvs people on land, men trying to fix car, bonnet up, view of engine. Back on boat, gvs coastline, unidentified castle, other boats. Closer view on land of birds, seagulls. people relaxing against white wall. ECS (Edinburgh Cine Society) member with camera. C/u sign 'Nesting birds you must not go beyond this notice'. C/u unidentified large brown nesting bird. Ext small stone monastry. Rearview man talking to monk? in brown robes, looking at coast in distance. Pan view coast, c/u man, trawler entering harbour in distance.