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Title: SCOTLAND 1959 / 1960

Reference number: 9503

Date: 1959 - 1960

Director: filmed by Colin Cowles

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 22.57 mins

Description: Amateur footage of holidays in Scotland, including visits to Aberdeen, Inverness, Stonehaven, Loch Ness and Loch Maree.

See also films from this collection at 9504 and 9505

Shotlist: [no title] gvs Aberdeen harbour, ships berthed and passing, mobile crane unloading coal from ship - gvs jute being unloaded from ship on to lorries - gvs fishing boats berthed, fishermen in oilskins mending nets - gull in flight (2.33) gvs auction in harbour market, gulls taking fish from boxes - pan across harbour - gulls taking scraps from boxes - gvs harbour, loading fish boxes on to trucks (4.04) gvs Downie Point, Stonehaven harbour, fishing boat A.85 Hazel - gvs harbour and boats, coastline, fishing boats - gvs sea and beach, jellyfish on sand, stones in water - gvs shore and rocks, swans at rocky shore, shoreline (8.00) l/s Inverness across river - gvs Inverness, including river, suspension bridge at Ladies Walk, man fishing from river-bank - children playing at river-bank - gvs angler fishing mid-stream (9.10) gvs waves at lochside - gvs animal carcase on beach - gvs loch and landscape (10.29) sign to Urquhart Castle - gvs castle and Loch Ness, cows in field - gvs castle ruins, visitors walking around site - high shots of loch and castle (12.01) gvs coast and sand dunes, rocky shore - gvs shore and beached yachts, waves - young boy with fishing line - clock tower - gvs boats on water (14.08) gvs river and stone bridge - sign 'Randolph's Leap' - gvs River Findhorn flowing over rocks - c/u shots of water around rocks - gvs landscape, glen and mountains, flock of sheep in field - l/shots mountains - man cutting grass with scythe - tracking shots of loch and mountains from train (18.24) gvs Benevean Dam, Glen Affric - shots from above dam and at lower level, water coming out of overflow below - loch gvs, including Loch Maree, landscape, bridge over river - shots of gulls on shore and in loch (21.59) gvs town [possibly Ullapool], houses on shore and back streets - gvs landscape and mountains (22.57)