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Title: KYLE TO INVERNESS 1972

Reference number: 8393

Date: 1972

Director: [filmed by Dr James B B Baird]

Sound: sound

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 10.09 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a family holiday trip on the railway line between Kyle of Lochalsh and Inverness, with stops at various stations along the route.

Title preserved as part of an AHRC funded video preservation project in partnership with Glasgow University, entitled 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland'.

Shotlist: title - gvs at Kyle of Lochalsh station, diesel train at platform - c/u map, pointer showing route from Kyle of Lochalsh - gvs disused station at Plockton, train approaching and stopping - tracking shots from train passing Plockton village - l/s train passing loch - l/s Duncraig Castle - c/u map, pointer showing route - gvs coastline - gvs train passing and going under bridge - gvs from train passing lochs and l/shots of line (3.15) c/u map, pointer showing route from Stromeferry inland - gvs from train passing through Stromeferry, travelling alongside new road, through avalanche tunnel (5.13) gvs crossing at Strathcarron station - passenger gets out at Achnashellach - gvs of route, passengers getting on at Achnasheen - traffic passing on road, train passing through Achanalt, power station, Lochluichart (6.56) c/u map, pointer showing route to Dingwall and Inverness - train leaves Lochluichart station, passes through Garve station, token is exchanged with driver - gvs line and landscape from train - gvs at Dingwall station, train departs - gvs at Muir of Ord signal box, another train passes - passing over swing bridge at Caledonian Canal, entering Inverness over river, reversing into station - shots of three women coming out of Caledonian Hotel and sightseeing along banks of River Ness - gvs Inverness Castle and bridge, river and streets - int shots of Inverness station and departure boards - THE END (10.09)