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Title: CAMP 1983

Reference number: 9459

Date: 1983

Director: filmed by John T. K. Barr

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 29.57 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a Scout summer camp in Argyll, including activities at the camp, a trip to a Sea Life Centre and gliding at Connel airfield.

For further information about John (Ian) T. K. Barr, see:
http://www.jtkb.info/ [last accessed 22/06/2020]

Obituary of Barr published in the Glasgow Herald, November 2007: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12453549.john-t-k-barr/ [last accessed 22/06/2020]

For other films in this collection see also refs. 9456, 9457, 9458, 9460, 9461 and 9462

Additional information file held at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive at ref. 11/1/562.

Shotlist: Shots of a van being packed up in Paisley. The van reaches its destination and the boys unpack equipment. Tents are pitched. The boys work together to position and put together the kitchen tent. Shot of a boy making a sign for the First Aid station. More Scouts with backpacks arrive. Various shots showing muddy waterlogged site. Shots of the boys swimming in a loch. Tying knots and flying kites. An oven made out of earth and grass is shown being used to cook. Trip to the Sea Life Centre. Brief cooking shots before the boys ready themselves for inspection. General views of the camp before the Union flag is hoisted and a prayer is said. Assault course including using plastic canisters to travel over muddy water. Other shots of camp activities including cooking and eating. Boy produces bread from the oven. Sign for the Connel Airstrip. Close up of gliders and shots of a glider being moved. Shots of one of the boys getting into glider which is towed along by a car until it flies off. Views of the glider flying before it lands. Shots from the annual Scout Highland games. The flag is lowered, the boys are shown eating and carrying the camp supplies to another location. SUMMER CAMP 1983 - THE END