AUF SCOTTISCHEN SCHLACHTFELDERN
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Jimmy McBeath sings the bothy ballad ‘A Pair o’ Nicky Tams’. (clip)
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Title: AUF SCOTTISCHEN SCHLACHTFELDERN
Reference number: 7226
Date: 1960s
Director: d. Robert Peter Hertwig
Sponsor: WWF Koln
Production company: Horst Film Productions
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 12:51 mins
Description:
Scottish folk music from Jeannie Robertson, Jimmy McBeath and the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Filmed in Blair Castle. [German narrative. See also ref. 0098, "Die Armee Des Duke"].
Credits:
m.p. Andy Hunter
m.p. Dolina MacLennan
m.p. Jimmy MacMeath (sic)
cast
Jeannie Robertson,
Georgie Hamilton,
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society,
Simpson D. Pirie,
William Clement,
Stewart Family Trio
d. Robert Peter Hertwig (Regie)
cam. Dietmar Graf
ed. Eva Kohlschein (Schnitt)
p. Hans Harro Kraus (Radaktion)
Shotlist: ocs (0.05) Auf Schottischen Schlachtfelden [On Scottish Battlefields]; c/u sign "Pass of Killicrankie"; shots of Andy Hunter singing to guitar in the pass [song: Killiecrankie] (2.18) Dolina McLennan sings, walking by a river (3.35) shots of Jimmy MacBeath, singing a bothy ballad [song: A Pair O Nicky Tams, partly obscured by v/o] (5.15) Jeannie Roberston sings, walking up hillside (6.46) shepherd with sheep on a hillside; singer leading Clydesdale horse near Blair castle? (8.00) Scottish Country Dancing to fiddle music (9.26) Second dance to pipe music (10.30) piper walking amongst trees, to join two older women, singing [Busk, Busk, Bonny Lassie, ecs superimposed] (12.51)