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Title: THREE MOUNTAINS IN THREE DAYS

Reference number: 8599

Date: 1960, February 28

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 1.26 mins

Description: News footage of Manchester University students returning from Ben Nevis during a fund-raising trip in Scotland.

Information from TV dopesheet found in original can:- 'These two students are from Manchester University and are doing this for Rag Week publicity. The three students that I was asked to get, started their climb at about 0230h and finished at about 0610h both times it was too dark for photography but when these climbers finished a lone climber started out - he finished at 0900 taking 2.5 hours to do the climb up and down. I have taken him finishing and deprting for the next climb which is Snow Fell. They hope to finish all 3 climbs in under 24 hours.'

Credits: [cameraman Malcolm Campbell]

Shotlist: [shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]

[no title] - shots of student Ken Wallers running over bridge at foot of Ben Nevis and approaching Triumph TR2 sports car - gvs of Ben Nevis in mist - shots of Wallers taking off climbing boots and getting into car, which is driven away by Edward Worswick - [camera left running inside car] (1.26)