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Title: FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1981 / FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1982 / FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1983

Reference number: 9261

Date: 1981 / 1982 / 1983

Director: filmed by James Robertson

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 46.58 mins

Description: Amateur magazine film of daily life and events in several Borders towns from 1981 to 1983, including Newtown St. Boswells, St. Boswells, Kelso, Lauder and visits to Edinburgh Zoo and the Royal Highland Show.

Shotlist: FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1981 - gvs Edinburgh Zoo including entrance, ducks, seals, antelope?, cranes?, penguins, polar bear, peacock, wallabies, parakeets, parrots, goats, bear, [dark shots], rhinoceros, leopard, hyena, tiger, [dark shots] - gvs visitors, wolf, zebra, deer, llamas, wildflowers, camels, lion, owl, penguins (7.08) gvs wildflowers, sheep and lambs in fields, goats, black sheep, blossom, large house (8.59) gvs auction market, cattle in pens [dark shots in shed] - gvs farmers at market, cattle trucks, cattle in pens (10.43) Vintage Agricultural Rally poster, Newtown St. Boswells - gvs vintage agricultural vehicles and equipment at show, modern tractors, stalls, aircraft overhead, ice cream van, stalls, engines, Verbeeck fairground organ (13.23) goat show, Clydesdale horse show, Highland dancers on back of truck (14.20) FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1982 - Kelso Show poster - Kelso road sign - gvs showground, cattle pens, parade of cattle, gvs showground, parade of livestock, parade of horses past stand, Clydesdale horses, Greenmantle Ale dray horse, stagecoach, river (17.54) ls Floors Castle - gvs showground, show-jumping competition, stalls, parade of ponies, Audi sales display, sales marquees, ice cream van (21.26) St. Boswells town sign - gvs travellers' caravans and cars on green, people relaxing in sun, young men playing cards, horse and trap passing on road - Gypsy Petrelengro and Gypsy Rose Lee Royal Palmist, Madame Herns Romany Palmist caravans - woman pushing man in wheelchair along road - gvs caravans, families and green, Gipsy Irene Lee caravan, group of children (25.03) gvs main road - St. Boswells Show sign - gvs car park, showground, horse riders, spectators, farmers, sheep in pens, pony show, showjumping, Greenmantle Ale dray horse, brass bend setting up (28.44) FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1983 - Highland Show newspaper sign - gvs showground at Ingliston, Clydesdale horses, tv camera crew, ponies, aircraft overhead - gvs agricultural machinery and vehicles, spectators, traction engine, crowds of visitors, farrier at work, display of sheep and cattle (32.21) gvs boys playing in street, wildflowers, horse in field, nests c/u, cattle, oof shots birds - [leader / black] - gvs river, flowers in garden, aircraft overhead, [dark shots] - c/u shots birds in trees, doves (35.57) Floors Castle sign - cars entering castle gateway, c/u sign - gvs castle, TV crew filming in grounds, pony and trap display - gvs cars at fair in grounds, pony and trap, visitors, coaches and horses demonstration, man filming with cine camera - gvs horses and traps - pan across castle (39.38) poster Border Union Show, Springwood Park, Kelso - gvs showground, stalls, ponies and riders, Kelso Tractors stall, crowds, ponies being judged, spectator with camcorder, ponies and riders (43.10) Lauder town sign - gvs agricultural show, cars arriving, Thirlestane Castle, vintage cars in car park, showground, Garvie threshing mill in operation - gvs vintage harvester in operation in field, horse-ploughing in castle fields, ploughing with vintage tractor - dark shot river, castle, sheep in field - THE END - ecs (46.57)