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Title: SCENES OF BANFFSHIRE COAST

Reference number: 9511

Date: 1959*

Director: filmed by A.J.G. Bodie

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.18 mins

Description: A trip along the Banffshire coast by boat, calling in at Buckie, Findochty and Porknockie with some final shots of Banff.

Shotlist: gvs taken from boat entering Buckie harbour, boys swimming, people on the harbour wall, shots of the north pier lighthouse – pan of fishing boats in harbour including INS. 294 – l/s fishing boat, (FR. 192?) entering harbour beneath lighthouse – closer shot of second boat, BC K. 22, entering harbour (0.40) brief shots of painter painting name Eminent on wheelhouse of boat and fisherman mending net – pan of boat repair shed at Buckie shipyard, with boats INS. 116 and INS. 62 out of the water – brief gvs of men working on boats including preparing nets and caulking deck with rope (1.05) brief l/s of Buckie harbour taken from boat with beacon on rock in sea – l/s entering Buckie harbour mouth – gvs of Coreena Cowie’s statue “The Mannie” at Findochty harbour – l/s Findochty taken from harbour wall (1.31) gvs men playing bowls in – l/s Findochty war memorial taken from the sea -l/s pans of coastline and Findochty with Bin of Cullen in background (2.10) – c/u Psalm 107 plaque on the back of “The Mannie” – gvs Findochty taken from harbour – gvs taken from boat as it leaves harbour and travels up the coast toward Portknockie (2.54) c/u man and children fishing with lines off harbour – high shot Portknockie harbour with paddling pool in view – gvs of men playing bowls at Portknockie bowling club (3.28) c/u Buckie bus – exts St. Peter’s church in Buckie taken from St. Andrews Square – gvs Banff bridge, pan to river Deveron and the sea – high shot pan taken from a field on the outskirts of Banff, town seen in distance, Duff House comes in to frame (4.18)