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Title: FAMILY SCENES INCLUDING A FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

Reference number: 9479

Date: 1968*

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.10 mins

Description: Families celebrate children's first holy communion in Dumbarton and take a trip to the beach.

See also refs 9480 9481 and 9482

Shotlist: [no title] Gvs children in pyjamas and night clothes playing, reading a comic, man arriving, woman cleaning shoes, women smoking and drinking (3.00) gvs women putting on coats and waving to camera [underexposed] car going along a road, Dumbarton rock with housing estate in foreground and roads, buildings and housing estate (4.27) [underexposed] gvs woman in kitchen buttering bread, children in pyjamas, 4 children in bath getting washed (6.19) children and men playing football in park, children and women rolling Easter eggs, removing eggshells and eating them, children getting into and sitting on top of cars (8.10) gvs football match at Parkhead, probably Celtic v. Morton - teams run out and kick off - Jimmy Johnstone playing on near wing - Celtic score on right, possibly Willie Wallace (9.32) l/s woman looking out of window, gvs Dumbuie Avenue, Dumbarton, with cars and van, heading towards Overtoun Estate gatehouse onto Dumbuck Road then A82 Stirling Road around roundabout and into Bellsmyre Avenue into Carman View and Aitkenbar Circle, past blocks of flats (11.36) Gvs group of children standing in front of camera, housing estate with cars parked, people get in car and wave, boy and girl playing football (12.53) gvs woman brushing girl's hair, girl in first holy communion dress, women and man supervise a line of boys and girls dressed for first communion, crowds of well-dressed people gathering (14.45) gvs children running down street, a boy and a girl standing outside flats in first communion clothes, a group of people join them, a man arrives in a car and is greeted by a group of children, group walk away, waving at camera, children playing outside (18.38) gvs woman putting hat on unhappy young girl who takes it off again, boys and woman leave (19.31) Gvs priest and bishop walking through the streets being applauded by boy scouts and smartly-dressed people, line of boys in smart shorts, shirts and ties with red sash walking with hands in prayer, escorted, line of girls in communion dresses and veils leaving building, a few boy scouts and brownies can be seen (21.26) Gvs priest and bishop greet crowds of people then get into brown car and drive off, priest and children in street, young boy and woman, boy dancing (22.18) [underexposed] gvs car arriving outside house, boy and girl in shorts playing football, children and women at beach (probably Dumbarton), woman carrying kettle and saucepan, children in swimming costumes, boy playing football, ship passing, children swimming in the Clyde, man kneeling in grass putting sugar in his tea (26.10)