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Title: ABERCORN LODGE SCHOOL

Reference number: 8284

Date: [1935]

Director: [filmed by John V. Jackson]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 7.37 mins

Description: Day to day activities at Abercorn Lodge School in Portobello, Edinburgh, prior to the start of the Second World War. Features footage of an outdoor summer nursery class, games, an exhibition of handiwork, and a school trip to the beach by tram.

Dated as 1935 from letter enclosed in original film can.

Handwritten note on can:- "Only thematic film made pre-war extant with title. School believed to have ceased c. 1943. BW Sil 220'." New leader 2001.

Credits: ed. and p. John V. Jackson

Shotlist: [shotlisted from MiniDV, manual control track]

title and opening credits The Gateway to Learning (0.12) exts Abercorn Lodge School, Portobello (0.32) In the Class Rooms ints dark] small children playing and painting (1.06) Out Door Summer Nursery Class exts children sitting at tables and chairs, in uniforms of summer dresses and bows in hair, learning (1.33) Physical Drill gvs same, exercising in rows, stretching etc (2.04) In Summer Out Door Games young girl playing with ball 'football'. Ring and ring a roses in huge circle (2.38) running and jumping over very long rope (2.55) Exhibition of Handiwork c/u embroidered flowers (3.09) [very dark, maybe more c/u] (3.23) further c/u embroideries, including work by Mary Rose Scotland Age 71/2 , and pottery? by John Jackson age 8 years (3.57) Hurrah! School Is Out children in uniform and their parents leave the school gates (4.24) Safety First Safety Always. Across the Street to the Tram gvs boarding the tram (two ladies in fur coats help - teachers?) (4.41) c/u sign 'Abercorn Lodge School' (4.55) SMT bus children get on board (5.29) gvs beach scenes kids playing making sandcastles teachers (all women) look on (6.21) school sports day races at same beach headland including egg and spoon races and running backwards, jumping over rope (7.27) Wishing you all a Merry Xmas from the Principal, Staff, and Pupils. The End (7.37)