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Title: SUMMER CAMP 1979

Reference number: 9460

Date: 1979

Director: filmed by John T. K. Barr

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 31.55 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a Scouts summer camp in Dumfriesshire, including campsite activities and a trip to Dumfries.

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, 9459, 9461 and 9462

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

Shotlist: Shot of flag “7th Paisley JNI 61st Renfrewshire” - BIELD PRODUCTIONS PRESENT… - SUMMER CAMP 1979 - CAITLOCH, MONIAIVE DUMFRIESSHIRE - Shot of sign for Moniaive. Shot of a van reaching campsite and the boys unpack it. Tents are pitched including a bathroom and kitchen tent. The flag is hoisted before the boys arrive on a bus and walk to the site. A boy having his finger patched up with first aid supplies. More tents are then pitched. MORNING EACH DAY… - INSPECTION AND FLAG BREAK - Shots of the boys washing dishes, laying out their things for inspection and being inspected, the Union flag is hoisted before a prayer is said. PIONEERING AND ASSAULT COURSE - making the assault course using ropes and winches. Crossing a fast running stream using ropes. Another boy crosses the river using the winch attached to a branch which the boy sits on. The boys make a rope bridge and set it in place over the stream. Burgers are then cooked for dinner. WORKING ON THE ESTATE TO SAY ‘THANK YOU’ - country house and the boys working in the garden digging up potatoes and cutting back bushes. One boy demonstrates knot tying. PETROL HIKES… - boys pack their bags and start the hike. Brief shots from a fete. GETTING US CLEANED UP (WASHING?? SWIMMING??) - boys get changed and go swimming
PETROL LEADERS SPECIAL OUTING - sign for a lead mining exhibition. Shot of the outside of a mine, a cart and the lifts. Shots of a military jet aeroplane and the exterior of the Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Group building. The boys climb into the aeroplane. DAY IN TOWN DUMFRIES - boys in a play park. GVs of the camp in the rain. PATROL INCIDENT JOURNEY - The boys who are blindfolded are shown walking. Ropes are used to pick up a cup. YE GRAND HIGHLAND GAMES - Shots from the annual scout camp highland games. Flag being lowered. FILMED ENTIRELY ON LOCATION - THE END