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Title: FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1978 / FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1979 / FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1980

Reference number: 9260

Date: 1978 / 1979 / 1980

Director: filmed by James Robertson

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 48.18 mins

Description: Amateur magazine film of daily life and events in several Borders towns from 1978 to 1980 and around 1984, including Melrose, Newtown St. Boswells, St. Boswells and Jedburgh.

Shotlist: FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1978 - gvs fields at potato harvest - gvs harvest, young men filling baskets with potatoes, baskets tipped into trailer - pan across field (3.30) gvs cricket match - teams resting - play restarts (7.18) gvs wildflowers, cattle, horses in field - brief shot travellers' vehicles at roadside - gvs wildflowers, main road - shots of strawberries? being sold at roadside, girl sitting on boot of Dutch Mercedes in layby (8.14) Melrose town sign - gvs Melrose Abbey Garden, flower beds, coach tour disembarking and people wandering around Melrose - gvs gardens and flowers, hothouses - gvs street, boys playing cricket on green, children playing in playpark - gvs street, flowers, lamb, family having picnic - gvs dog and garden, horses, countryside, Eildon Hills, chickens, cattle (13.04) man sawing tree trunk with chainsaw - daffodils in wood and garden - gvs boys on bikes, women and Morris Marina, traffic passing through St. Boswells, cattle in fields, horse rider, blossom, aircraft overhead, woman walking dogs - gvs children on bikes on road, posing for camera, lambs, river (15.08) FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1979 - gvs Buccleuch Arms Hotel, riders gathering for hunt, onlookers, dogs - hunt sets off along road - people in car park after hunt has left (17.13) gvs auction market, cattle in stalls, cattle trucks - dark shots inside market sheds, cattle numbered - cattle being groomed outside in pens - farmers with sheep in pens, cattle paraded around yard (18.52) Newtown St. Boswells town sign - RAC sign Vintage Agric. Rally - gvs cars arriving at rally, traction engines on display, model boats, fairground organ, stalls, goats in pen, visitors, vintage agricultural machinery, antique stall - shots of Bamford and Crossley engines in operation - gvs motorcycles, tractor (22.37) gvs combine harvester at work in field (26.19) gvs junction at St. Boswells, snowdrops, house, main road, black sheep in field, farmhouse, cattle, sheep - gvs man outside cottage on main road sweeping pavement with old-fashioned brush - pan across hills - gvs sheep in field, St. Columba's College, river and suspension bridge (29.58) FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1980 - c/u RAF Buccaneer flying overhead - shaky gvs landscape and town - RAF Jet Provost overhead - gvs old man with bicycle, wildflowers, cattle, river, aircraft overhead, horses - shaky l/s Waterloo Monument - c/u John Younger memorial stone in graveyard - woman and boys on bench (33.01) Maxton town sign - gvs traffic on main road through village - gvs village houses, Eildon Hills in distance, St. Columba's College, river and hills - St. Boswells town sign - gvs Buccleuch Arms Hotel, road junction, bin lorry, traffic, public hall, parish church, post office, church hall, traffic on main street, memorial, gateway, Patons Buildings, Weirgate Brae, main street, traffic on roads (37.19) poster St. Boswells Midsummer Fair - gvs fair on sunny day, horse riding, pet show, children's races, pillow fight, boys' race, tug-of-war, onlookers, stalls, children playing, decorated bicycles parade - gvs undergrowth, butterfly, Eildon Hills, tractor mowing school field (41.54) Newtown St. Boswells town sign - RAC sign Vintage Agric. Rally - gvs cars arriving at rally, Scottish & Newcastle dray lorry with decorated horses, showground and stalls, dog show, woman spinning wool, display tractors and machinery, Subaru cars, motorcycles, mowers, military vehicles, Verbeeck fairground organ, traction engines - gvs blacksmiths at work - gvs vintage tractor parade, pipe band marching past (44.44) Jedburgh burgh sign - gvs traffic passing on main road, landscape, wildflowers, traffic through town - gvs Mary Queen of Scots House, main streets, Market Place, Newgate, streets (46.47) gvs Jedburgh Abbey, Newgate, traffic on main road, Jedburgh Parish Church, children in play-park - dark shots landscape - THE END - ecs (48.18)