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Title: FAMILY GATHERING XMAS 1949

Reference number: 9292

Date: 1949

Director: filmed by Dr. Iain Dunnachie

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.54 mins

Description: Christmas at home with the Dunnachie family in 1949.

Shotlist: title. Shot of a bicycle, a pram and a Christmas tree in a lounge. Shot of two children (Avril and Margo Dunnachie) coming into the lounge holding some toys. Shot of a toy train set. Shot of Mrs Dunnachie opening the front door of the house. Two women and a man enter. Shot of more people coming into the house. Mrs Dunnachie and the two children are shown giving out presents to everyone in the room including the dog. Shot of Margot unwrapping a doll and shot of Avril with her doll. Shot of the children opening more of other presents. Shot of Margot covering the doll, now in the pram, with a blanket. Shot of the dining table all set and decorated and with a cake in the centre. Shot of people around the table. More shots of presents being given out. gvs of the guests at the party and the Dunnachie family smiling. Shot of Avril and then Margot singing and dancing in front of a piano.
THE END. FAMILY GATHERING XMAS 1949