PICNIC AND KESWICK CAMP
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Title: PICNIC AND KESWICK CAMP
Reference number: 8752
Date: 1952
Director: [filmed by John F Mitchell]
Sound: silent
Original format: 9.5mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 7.15 mins
Description: Amateur footage of a Dundee City Mission children's picnic in a park, and a trip to the Keswick Convention in the Lake District.
Shotlist: gvs sports day in field - boys' wheelbarrow race, shots of adult helpers - girls' three-legged races and winners - women's and men's races and winners - gvs groups of adults - girls' and boys' races, shots of helpers - sack races - groups of adults with ice creams and drinks (2.17) group of people at Austin car ready for journey - gvs Lake District scenery, women at roadside at lake - gvs lake, young girls on boat - gvs of scenery from boat - pleasure boats on lake shore (3.03) very brief sequence of single frames of signs from Keswick Convention buildings: 'Mission to Mediterranean Garrisons', 'Church of England Christian Endeavour House-Party', 'Glasgow YWCA', 'Soldiers' and Airmen's Scripture Reading Association', 'Regions Beyond Missionary Union', 'Inter Hospital Nurses Christian Fellowship', London Embankment Mission van, Emmanuel Missions van, Evangelical Electric Co. Ltd. stall - pan across convention stalls, including Spurgeon's Colportage Association - gvs of convention delegates gathering and queuing, with convention banner 'All One In Christ Jesus' in background - Scripture Gift Mission stall, other stalls along street, delegates milling around and chatting (3.35) landscape gvs - women and girls coming out of house, gvs houses in village, Church of St. John in Keswick (3.54) gvs Lake Windermere, swans, Old England Hotel at Bowness, steam launches and waterfront at Bowness - gvs Lake District scenery from hill - lake and hills, country roads - woman and children climbing up ladder on to Bowder Stone rock at Borrowdale - gvs landscape, hills (5.31) gvs Keswick street, delegates queuing for convention in large marquee, some singing as they walk - brief frames of banners: 'Youth for Christ', 'Zambesi Mission' - brief shot of marquee pole (6.14) groups of people on coach outing, walking over bridge, up hill (6.46) group of women and girls outside Ballinluig Hall? in summer, Midland coach arriving - group shot of children and adults outside caravan (7.15)