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Title: PONY TREKKING IN GLENISLA

Reference number: 9368

Date: 1959c

Director: [filmed by Lionel Butler]

Sound: silent

Original format: std.8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.22 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a holiday at the Galenisla Hotel in Angus and pony trekking trips from the hotel.

Films shot by Lionel Butler - a member of the Edinburgh Cine Club where he worked with many people, including Adam Malcolm. He knew Alan Harper of Campbell-Harper Films.

Shotlist: [no title] - pan across landscape - gvs group of people on horses wading through river, then arriving and dismounting at Glenisla Hotel, Kirkton of Glenisla, welcomed by owner Donald Ferrier - dark shot of horses in field - pan across field, horses and riders - riders set off on pony trek along road past hotel and cross river - riders returning across river (4.56) riders coming down country road - riders in field at hotel, girl brushing horse - Ferrier drives up to hotel in car and enters - pan across field and landscape - young children on pony - Ferrier outside hotel, petrol pump behind - gv sign on shed 'Donald Ferrier Prop. Pony Trekking Centre' - boy rides off on bicycle - pony trek along country road - children dismounting and cleaning horses - riders set off from hotel and cross river - pan across fields from hotel - hotel garden - Ferrier and guests outside hotel, he spins young girl around - guests and staff chatting - car departs and staff wave (9.01) shot from house of young girl playing in street with scooter - girls posing for camera in garden (9.22)