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Title: BRUGES

Reference number: 8894

Date: 1977*

Director: filmed by Dr James B B Baird

Sound: sound

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.52 mins

Description: An amateur film with commentary of a family holiday to Bruges in Belgium, showing the city's architecture and canals, and including a trip to the beach at Zeebrugge.

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 of architecture in main square in Bruges, town hall, belfry tower, Chapel of the Holy Blood, court of justice - gvs streets and alleys, canal with tour boat, bridges (2.14) shots on board tour boat, guide talking, passing ivy-covered house and Church of Our Lady, along canal, under bridges, passenger using film camera, passing canal-side houses, to outskirts of city, past Hotel Duc de Bourgogne (5.52) woman sitting outside 'Old Bruges' tea room - gvs architecture, street scenes, ivy-covered tower, Church of Our Lady - gvs canal and Minnewater Park - l/shots bride and groom being photographed in park - gvs Beguinage, wedding party, horse and carriage (7.39) gvs of beach at Zeebrugge, industrial facility, beach huts, climbing frame and chute - woman relaxing on sea front, children playing, yachts on sea, people walking on beach - shots of canal bridge in operation, cars waiting in line - shot of Zeebrugge station (9.31) high shots of city from belfry tower: St. Salvator's Cathedral, Church of Our Lady - dark shots of belfry and high shots of city centre [some o.o.f.] - gvs streets and canals, gvs architecture, entrance to Beguinage (11.34) gvs Ostende station and harbour with ferry 'Prins Philippe' - final shot of woman on board (11.52)