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Title: PRESIDENTS PICNIC better known as ONE MAN AND HIS GROG, the

Reference number: 6417

Date: 1968, June 16

Director: filmed by Scott Renwick

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.00 minsc

Description: Man walking with dog in countryside. He has a drink from an unidentified bottle before becoming tipsy and using a divining rod to locate a loch. Several people take a short trip in a rowing boat.

Credits: cast Jim and Judy
[ph. & ed. Russell McKnight
act. Jim Hickie]

Shotlist: EDINBURGH AND HAWICK CLUB TOGETHER ON JUNE 16th 1968 AT ST. MARY'S LOCH TO FILM that oft postponed, painstakingly prepared panora..... wait for it!! PANORAMANIA... title, credits. Ext. large house, man in sunglasses exits with cane and lunchbag before returning inside and exiting again with black labrador. Man walks down country road with dog. They walk up a hill. Man stops, sits on grass and swigs from a bottle of water (vodka?). He eats an apple, gives a bit to dog. Man appears to be tipsy, bottle falls over and spills on grass. Camera zooms in and out from sun. Man looks at map. Man takes jacket off, stumbles towards camera. C/u man licking lips. He uses divining rod to find sign. Campbelltown loch. Man and dog at lochside, several people board a small rowing boat with glass tumblers in hand. They go out on loch for a short while, then return.