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Title: TRAQUAIR HOUSE

Reference number: 6838

Date: 1966*

Director: w. & d. Ian Shand

Production company: Shand Pictures Ltd

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.57 mins

Description: Overview and history of Traquair House near Peebles which has remained in the Stuart family for generations.

See also ref. 6837

'Homes of History' typed on original film can.

Credits: narr. Patrick Cargill, Gerald Sim, Leo Maguire and Frieda Knorr
ass.d. Michael Carnill
ph. Geoffrey P. Meldrum, Ted Wooldridge
focus James S. Dibling
m. Scroll Music, London
ed. Peter Todd
The British Travel Association

Shotlist: No title. Map UK, zoom into Traquair House near Peebles (0.17) tracking shot along rural road to House (0.44) ext. Traquair House, pan gardens (1.04) Peter Maxwell Stuart and family, descendents of Stuarts, at Traquair (1.32) picture Mary Queen of Scots (1.43) int. bedroom in house, dining room, painting of Charles 1st (2.27) ext. Traquair House (2.36) int. room, piano (2.45) ext., landscape (2.59) elevated view garden (3.06) ext. house, zoom into descendent at window (3.18) int. house, large wooden door (3.44) view from window of front garden (3.50) c/u letter from 1641 (4.04) illustration streets of Edinburgh (4.11) gates of Traquair (4.30) int. chapel, secret staircase (5.02) bible from 1479 (5.09) ext. house from side (5.15) painting Bonnie Prince Charlie (5.25) ext. Bear gates, view of house from side (5.54) int., family at hot liquor tank brewing ale ( 6.15) ext. Bear gates (6.18) Traquair house viewed from afar (6.28) ecs (6.57) (250ft)