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Title: FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1984 / FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1985 / FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1986

Reference number: 9262

Date: 1984 / 1985 / 1986

Director: filmed by James Robertson

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 46.44 mins

Description: Amateur magazine film of daily life and events in several Borders towns from 1984 to 1986, including Newtown St. Boswells, St. Boswells, Kelso, and visits to Edinburgh Zoo.

Shotlist: FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1984 - gvs wildflowers, boys on golf course, butterflies, man and boys in canoes on river on sunny day (3.43) gvs entrance to Edinburgh Zoo - gvs animals including seals, swans, bears, cassowary, dark shots lynx? and various birds, owls, pine marten, wolf, zebras, hyena, jaguar, penguins on 'penguin walk' - gvs zoo entrance - gvs penguins in enclosure, polar bear, parakeets, budgies, cockatoos, parrots, dark shots monkey enclosure, beavers, flamingos, ducks, hippopotami, lions, leopards?, 'penguin walk' (10.43) gvs wildflowers, old tractor cutting grass, horse-riders, [shaky] rabbits in field, tractor loading hay bales on to lorry, [shaky] horses and rabbits (13.34) St. Boswells town sign - gvs caravans on green (14.16) FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1985 - BORDERS COUNTRY FAIR, THE HIRSEL, COLDSTREAM 1985 - gvs Hirsel and grounds, stalls, visitors, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Arthritis & Rheumatism Council, Coldstream Pipe Band, stalls (17.06) shot of Hercules the bear 'wrestling' with his owner Andy Robin in ring - gvs wildflowers, boy and girl in school uniform, large house, horses in field (18.39) Floors Castle signs - gvs country fair on sunny day, horses and carriages, one driven by Prince Philip as crowds watch - gvs castle and grounds, horses and carriages, visitors, car park, Clydesdale Bank stall (21.22) Newtown St. Boswells town sign - gvs country fair, cars arriving in fields, horses on showground, prizes being awarded, brass band playing, horses and ponies - gvs sheep in pens, dog show - gvs houses, wildflowers, river, house, tractor passing, cemetery - c/u gravestone Agnes Younger Robertson - gvs gravestones, traffic, landscape, flowers in garden, memorial, woman in garden - gvs garden, man relaxing, woman weeding, flowers (28.41) FILMED BY JAMES ROBERTSON 1986 - BORDER UNION SHOW, SPRINGWOOD PARK KELSO 1986 - gvs parade of horses on showground, Clydesdale horses, pedigree cattle, vintage commercial carts including Vaux Breweries and Edward Hoult, car park, military brass band (32.16) gvs primroses in wood, river, blossom, family walking dogs, angler, Dryburgh Abbey Hotel, river and houses on bank, dark shots primroses, Eildon Hills, wildflowers, river, blossom, daffodils, flowers in garden, dark shots snowdrops (36.17) long shots St. Boswells and fields, crocuses, ls river, Lessudden House, old barn and doocot, estate gateway, wildflowers on bridge, ls tractor at work in field, river, daffodils, primroses, cattle in fields - gvs St. Boswells, school playing field, man and boy playing Swingball in field (39.46) gvs entrance to Edinburgh Zoo, road outside - gvs zoo, including penguins, owl, swan, penguin walk, aircraft overhead, giraffe, elephant, stag, Highland cattle, wolf, zebras, tigers, lions (43.05) Lauder town sign - Scottish Horse Trials sign, Thirlestane Castle - gvs horse show, horses in trucks, showground and spectators, Bart J Snowball stall, castle, stalls, horses and riders, showjumping - THE END - ecs (46.44)