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Title: EVERYTHING IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS / CASTLE TOWARD AND DUNOON

Reference number: 9423

Date: 1975 / 1976

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.39 mins

Description: Compilation of amateur footage including a comedy sketch about a dentist's waiting room and activities around Castle Toward.

Shotlist: EVERYTHING IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS - [comedy film sequence, all parts played by young girls] - dentist's waiting room, patients waiting to be seen, more patients arrive, receptionist shows them to a seat, then tries to read her book - old woman is helped into waiting room - 'dentist' comes into room brandishing pincers and hammer, terrified patients run out of door, thinking she is the dentist - real dentist comes out and asks where all the patients are, receptionist looks guilty as dentist finds her book - 'dentist' then starts repairing a cabinet - receptionist settles down to powder her nose - The End (3.05) gvs Dunoon sea-front - paddle steamer Waverley docked at pier - gvs anglers on pier, gulls feeding - procession of women in Dutch traditional dress along pier - gvs harbour and gulls - gvs group of boys on departing ferry - shots passing oil rig structures - ferry docks at construction site and group get on to coach - gvs construction site - boys get off coach - l/s rig being towed (8.37) gvs Castle Toward building, boys on turret and walking around - piper George MacIlwham playing in Castle Toward doorway - l/shots rig being towed and MacIlwham playing on castle turret - gvs castle - gvs basset hounds and beagles in cages in kennel - gvs basset hound puppy arriving at house, wandering around garden and rockery with other dogs and cat - horses and cattle in field (12.18) women sitting having drinks in garden, puppy wanders around - yachts on Firth of Clyde - gvs anti-nuclear protesters with banners and placards marching along sea-front at Dunoon (13.39)