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Title: SONG OF ROLAND

Reference number: 6476

Date: 1979*

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.40 mins

Description: Amateur travelogue through the Pyrenees district of France and Spain. Accompanied by informative and occasional voiceover with harpsichord music across the French sequences. More flamenco Spanish guitar music accompanies Spanish sequences. Later on, jaunty piano singing 'Tubular Bells' by Mike Oldfield.

Shotlist: Dawn at harbour in Le Havre. C/u statue. Title. Gvs people in street, including Elizabeth. Cedar tree in Tours. C/u carved sculpture on cathedral. Gvs more sculpture with religious themes. Gvs small town, Arue, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Elizabeth asking local for information on eating places. Gvs river and bridge. Gvs street scenes, shops, people, houses. Mountainous scenery, people having picnic. Sign Pic du Midi. Zoom into shot of observatory and television mast on the Pic. Cattle. Sign Col d'Aspin Altitude 1489m. Gvs. Sign Col du Tourmalet Altitude 2114m. Gvs people. Closer view observatory on mountain top. Cable car descending mountain. Gvs Arue market day, produce. Sign Chapelle des templiers (XIIeS). Gvs. Sign Espagne par Tunnel... Mountainous French Pyrenees scenery. Scenery in Spain, mountainous and more rocky but with not as lush vegetation. Sign Ordesa 1e Categoria. Gvs mountainous scenery of Spanish Pyrenees. Small rivers, mist, rockface. 'U' shaped valley. Gvs scenery. Gvs pastures, people looking at scenery in a National Park. Cattle being brought down to lower pasture. Gvs village. Gvs Pamplona, formal gardens in Basque country. Gvs houses, washing hanging out. Trout farm. Pass of Roland (a pass of historical pilgrimage in the Pyrenees). Sign Rue de Espagne. Gvs street in village. People in VW campervan ext. shops. People picnic. Ferry across estuary North West of Bordeaux. Sunset. Gvs La Rochelle. Exercise instruction sign for park. Gvs park. Woman sunbathing. Gvs streets. Elizabeth the driver is given a present of a bottle of perfume. Sign Chateaud'O, a historical monument. Gvs stately home given over to breeding horses. End.