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Title: SCOTLAND 1937 / 1938 / 1939

Reference number: 9504

Date: 1937 / 1938 / 1939

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.22 mins

Description: Amateur footage of visits to Scotland, including Dundee, Dingwall, Balmoral and the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow.

See also films from this collection at 9503 and 9505

Shotlist: [no title] - l/s Warkworth Castle - tracking shot from car through gatehouse and across stone bridge - group of people on beach at sand dunes having picnic, fishing in pools, young men and woman playing in water, people paddling and walking along beach - l/s Bamburgh Castle (0.58) man and woman walk past road sign over border from England into Scotland - BOWERS'S AT BERWICK - visitors arrive at house and are welcomed - young woman in garden with dog (1.41) THE FERRY FOR DUNDEE - vehicles including Nicoll & Smibert wagon drive on to ferry, man and woman on deck - AT DUNDEE - car drives off ferry - shot of pipe band playing in public park - gvs harbour and fishing boats, fish being unloaded and laid out for auction (2.55) CRATHIE, BALMORAL & THE VALE OF D[EE] - couple outside Crathie Kirk - l/shots Balmoral Castle and countryside (3.27) BEACHED AT FRASERBURGH - gvs several fishing boats wrecked on shore - girl feeding ducks - NORTH OF INVERNESS - gvs van crossing stone bridge over waterfall, man climbs down bank of river (4.27) IN HIGH STREET DINGWALL - farmer herding Highland cattle along street - GLEN GARRY - gvs River Garry flowing over rocks (5.03) THE QUEEN ELIZABETH JULY 1938. - gvs passing HMS Queen Elizabeth under construction in John Brown's yard at Clydebank - APRIL 1939 - gvs Queen Elizabeth being fitted out - SOUTH OF GIRVAN - gvs waves, foam on shore on Ayrshire coast (6.03) BARN FIRE AT BRAMPTON - gvs hay barn on fire, firefighters hosing fire (6.35) Factory Fire in Glasgow - night-time shots of fire in high building, firefighter hosing blaze from high ladder - LIGHTS AT NIGHT - night-time shots of fairground at Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow - brief shot of women passing on Lister Autotruck at exhibition - FROM THE TOP OF THE TOWER - high gvs of Empire Exhibition site, including fairground, pavilions, entrance - THE FOUNTAINS - gvs group of people walking past fountains at Scotland pavilion - young girls dancing in formation in front of crowds, boys performing drill (9.35) gvs tram ride through streets of Newcastle, streets decorated with bunting and 'God Save the King' and 'Long May They Reign' banners for the Coronation, passing trams and trolleybuses, cinema (10.22)