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Title: CHRISTMAS

Reference number: 9136

Date: 1959

Director: [filmed by Ronald S. Buchan]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.39 mins

Description: Amateur home movie footage of a young boy opening his presents at Christmas and playing with his new bicycle outside.

Shotlist: shots of young boy (Roderick) at home - shot of bicycle with stabilisers - boy sitting at fireplace with Christmas stocking, starts taking out presents, unwrapping them, including sketch book, Smarties, as woman watches - more Christmas presents on table - boy and woman unwrap more presents - Christmas wreath on wall - boy on bicycle, wearing new cowboy gun in holster (2.12) shots of boy entering doorway to Watson Fraser Nursing Home in Aberdeen on visit to his grandmother - shots of boy having meal at table, wearing paper hat, Christmas cake on table - shots of boy on suburban street in Aberdeen, riding new bicycle along pavement (3.39)