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Title: CAMP 1987 KIRKCUDBRIGHT

Reference number: 9462

Date: 1987

Director: filmed by John T. K. Barr

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 19.13 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a Scout summer camp in Kirkcudbrightshire, including campsite activities, working on a farm and a visit to a water sport centre.

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, 9460 and 9461

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

Shotlist: Shot of the Scout flag for the 7th Paisley unit. A van arrives at the camp and the boys unpack it. Tents are pitched and supplies are brought to the camp. The boys readying the camp for inspection. One boy is shown having his hands checked which he is made to wash. The flag is then unfurled and a prayer is said. Shots of the tuck shop. The boys clearing out a farm courtyard and sweeping. The boys sitting under shelters they have made and practising archery. Using compasses and eating in one of the tents. Hiking. One boy listens to music (cassette player?) and one of the leaders uses a typewriter. A boy uses an earth covered oven. Assault course with a rope bridge. Brighouse Bay Holiday Park water sport centre, canoeing wearing life jackets. The flag is lowered.