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Title: PICNIC / BALLINLUIG CAMP / PICNIC: WINDMILL PARK / CAMP

Reference number: 8753

Date: 1953 / 1954

Director: [filmed by John F Mitchell]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 35.21 mins

Description: Amateur footage of children's summer camps and outings organised by the Dundee City Mission in the mid-1950s.

Shotlist: "PICNIC 1953" - gvs groups of adults and children in Camperdown Park, Dundee - group of women and girls skipping - various groups posing for camera (1.27) children's running races and shots of winners - groups sitting about on grass - shot of person walking around in polar bear costume - more shots of winners of races and group shots - women handing out ice cream cones - more groups posing for camera - children playing dancing games (5.47) "BALLINLUIG CAMP 1953" - group posing for camera in front of coach, walking along road, cheering for camera on hillside - gvs landscape, hills - shot of group of men - brief shot of small fire outside building - boys playing cricket in field - shots of groups of boys and girls - shots of races and winners - group of boys peeling potatoes - man and woman and baby - children in swing park - all playing dancing games - playing cricket in field - adults gather around door of hostel building (10.52) gvs river and group fishing - gvs play-park - shots of group preparing to board coach, waving to camera - group of girls in 'Sunday best' carrying bibles - women and girls playing cricket in field - large group posing for camera - shots of races and winners - shots of group outside hostel and preparing to board coach (16.32) "PICNIC: WINDMILL PARK 1954"; CHILDREN'S FREE BREAKFAST AND CITY MISSION [26th June 1954, Newport] - shots of adults and children leaving church building in Dundee, men in front carrying banner, marching along street - in railway station, group on chartered carriage, waving to camera (18.07) group of older men pose for camera in Windmill Park, Newport-on-Tay - gvs children in park - shots of races and winners pose for camera - gvs park, river and Tay Bridge in background - children playing cricket - groups of adults and children pose for camera - children on chute and roundabout - groups of children and adults pose for camera (22.39) older women sitting on bench at railway station - group on platform at East Newport station, waving to camera - shots from carriage window as train departs - tracking shots of Tay - closing intertitle - The End (23.58) "CAMP JULY/AUG. 54" - intertitles - gvs Ballinluig village, church hall, post office, railway line and Tummel bridge in distance [much of this sequence double-exposed] - shots of children and adults in front of coach - shots of group in 'Sunday best' holding bibles, walking into church - children playing in field, groups posing for camera - girls playing netball - wheelbarrow race - obstacle race - more groups posing for camera - obstacle race - cricket - quoits - children on swings (29.08) c/u of fish in fish ladder - shots of group posing in front of Pitlochry power station - children on swing - shots of man posing for camera next to his car - groups posing for camera on benches in field - shots of group going to church in 'Sunday best' (31.21) shots at river, children and adults swimming and paddling, some learning to swim - shots of women playing quoits over net in field, others playing football - girls skipping - race winners waving to camera - sack race winners - three-legged race winners - shots of group preparing to board coach, waving to camera - The End - closing intertitle (35.21)