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Title: 1969

Reference number: 9559

Date: 1969*

Director: filmed by Don Morris

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.47 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a family holiday at a caravan site in the north of Scotland.

For other films in this collection please see refs. 9557, 9558, 9560, 9562, 9563

Shotlist: [no title] tracking shots from car along loch-side road - two cars in lay-by, families posing for camera - tracking shots approaching and crossing Connel Bridge, through North Connel - shots of families arriving at caravan site - gvs site - int shots in caravan, father gets cup of tea in bed - families fishing and relaxing at loch-side - children playing at giant boulder - gvs waves at loch-side (4.08) families playing on beach on sunny day, swimming, running along sand [some slow motion sequences] - boy fishing with net - skiff sailing on loch (7.22) tracking shots from car along loch-side - gvs loch and Castle Stalker in distance - sign for Appin Ferry - gvs loch and pier, ferry approaching - tracking shots from car approaching Oban - gvs ferry Columba approaching Oban harbour, tying up - ice loaded on to fishing boat (9.30) gvs in caravan park, boys playing on space hopper [some sequences speeded up and slowed down] - father smokes pipe inside caravan, mother walks past - gv landscape, father walking past (10.39) family on boat trip, passing ferry, yacht - boy, father and others fishing from boat, catch displayed - aircraft flies overhead - gvs from boat of seals on rocks (12.13) gvs caravan site and loch in distance - gvs family on boat trip, passing yachts, approaching pier - father and boys ashore - gvs sea and landscape - tracking shots from boat trip at sea (14.47)