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Title: DEBLAX PLAYTIME

Reference number: 7555

Date: 1940sc

Director: [filmed by W.S. Dobson (Primus)]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.33 mins

Description: Fun and games on various works outings by members of staff at David Black's & Co.

Shotlist: [shot-listed from speed corrected tape - manual control track]

[B&W] title - c/u sign Dryburgh Abbey hours of admission - shot of group of Black's workers outside gates - gvs of abbey and workers walking around - shots of River Tweed and cattle - shots of coach in field and workers walking, feeding sheep (0.51) [COL] THE STAFF SPORTS -gvs of staff gathering for group photograph, includes models from previous film - brief shot of car park (1.47) [B&W] The Egg and Spoon Race (It is only the eggs that are "hard-boiled") - [COL] c/u and wide shots of women's race - [B&W] Thread-the-Needle Race - [COL] men and women's race - [B&W] Sack Race - [COL] c/u and wide shots of women's and men's races - shots of wheelbarrow race (2.54) [B&W] Three-legged Race - [COL] c/u and wide shots of race - shots of women and men's sprints - women playing leapfrog - shots of workers arriving at stately home, Dryburgh Abbey Hotel? (3.37) [B&W] EPISODE II "Evening Entertainment" - OUR SOCIAL 1948 - gvs of staff dance: shots of young women ballroom dancing in hall - THE "HOKEY-KOKEY" - shots of dancers, mostly young women - c/u shots of accordionist and pianist (4.45) "COME BACK TO SORRENTO" SINGER - OUR MISS BYRNE - shot of same - shots of women dancing, groups sitting around dance floor, band members, men and women dancing (5.46) THE CONGA - shots of conga line round dance-floor - FIDGETTY-FEET - c/u shots of dancers' feet - SO THIS IS JITTERBUGGING!! - shots of women dancing - [black] (7.11) EPISODE III "Tour of The Three Lochs" - OUR BUS RUN 1948 - WHERE'S THAT BUS? - [COL] shot of group of workers waiting in street - tracking shot from coach along road - c/u sign Balloch station - street scene with Central bus - [B&W] OUR ROBERT MURRAY TAYLOR (THE TAILOR) - [COL] c/u shot Mr. Taylor - [B&W] LOOK WHAT I GOT IN MY STOCKING!! - [COL] shot of group of workers outside Tullichewan Hotel - c/u booking sign for Loch Lomond steamers - [B&W] A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVES - [COL] shot of workers embarking on small pleasure boat - c/u shots of group on boat (8.47) [B&W] BEHOLD!! SIMPSON THE SMILING SEASICK SAILOR - [COL] brief shot of man pretending to be sick - tracking shots of another pleasure boat and child on a houseboat - shots of group at coaches, boats on loch, group disembarking from pleasure boat (10.13) [B&W] TWO STRINGS TO HIS BOW - [COL] brief shot of young man hugging two young women - [B&W] BY YON BONNIE BANKS AND - - [COL] SHOTS OF HOUSE BOATS ON LOCH - [B&W] BY YON BONNIE BRAES .... - ARROCHER - [COL] gv loch and mountains - [B&W] "TEA FOR TWO" - [COL] shot of man carrying cups of tea along pavement - [B&W] DID HE SPILL THEM? - WHISTLEFIELD - [COL] shot of group of workers walking along country road - [B&W] THE GARELOCH - [COL] high gv of loch, including naval vessels - shot of group of workers with nissen huts in background - [B&W] DONALD DHU BUT HE DIDN'T - [COL] - shot of man pretending to drink bottle of whisky - shots of groups of workers at bus (12.40) [B&W] MRS CARNIES STUDY OF AERONAUTICS "WHO'LL BUST FUST." B OR C BALLOON OR CARNIE - [COL] shot of Mrs Carnie blowing party streamer - [B&W] MY GOODNESS!! MY BUS!! DID HE CATCH IT? WAIT & SEE - [COL] shots of man pretending to run after bus - [B&W] WE REACHED GLASGOW - AND YET HE HADN'T CAUGHT UP - [COL] shot of man chasing bus through Anniesland Cross, finally jumping on - [B&W] DID HE SPILL THEM? - [COL] AND AS DUSK CAME ON WE WENT HOME TIRED BUT- - HAPPY .... - [COL] 'DEBLAX' PICTORIAL - [B&W] shots of man locking up Shandwick Place premises - c/u sign 'Business Transferred to 3/4 Meadow Pl. - man walks to new premises, opens door, staff walk in - The End (14.33)