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Title: REFLECTIONS OF STEVENSON

Reference number: 9494

Date: 1953c

Director: filmed by Tom Stitt

Production company: Scotia

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 12.52 mins

Description: A dramatisation of scenes from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'The Black Arrow: a Tale of the Two Roses', including general views of Edinburgh streets

Film was entered for Scottish Amateur Film Festival, 1953.

Credits: cast RLS/Richard Shelton - Alex Black, Joanna Sedley - Marjorie Smith, T. Gaffney, J. Stitt, K. Mackinlay, A. Waterston
original theme - A. Waterston
Dress design - Audrey Wishart, T. Stitt
d. T. Stitt

Shotlist: GVs Edinburgh including shots of the Royal Academy and the Scott Monument. Street view of trams driving past. Shot of a row of terraced houses and sign “Stevenson Memorial House. Birthplace of Robert Louis Stevenson. Purchased by the Robert Louis Stevenson Club 1920”. Shots of a house in countryside. Reconstruction of Stevenson sitting at a table and chair outside in the garden, starts to write ‘Chapter V - How Dick Changed Sides. Dick taking a coil of...’ Reconstruction of scenes from novel ‘The Black Arrow’ by Stevenson follows, scenes of fighting around a castle. GVs display of Stevenson’s books, including The Body Snatcher and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The film ends with the actor playing Stevenson looking contemplatively at sea and walking along the beach.

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