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Title: CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, THE CHAPEL OF THE GARIOCH PARISH CHURCH, WORK OF THE MINISTER

Reference number: 9782

Date: 1970c

Director: filmed by Patrick Burges-Lumsden

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Running time: 20.48 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the area around Chapel of Garioch in Aberdeenshire and the daily activities of the local minister.

Shotlist: 1970 - title - l/s Bennachie - c/u sign Chapel of Garioch Parish Church - gvs church building and King George V Hall - zoom in to bell tower - gvs church and graveyard, war memorial (1.14) int shots in church, stained glass window, choir singing - gvs congregation coming out of church, minister Rev. Alan Main standing in doorway (2.35) Main and wife Anne sitting in manse looking at old map - Main leaves house followed by children and dog, drives away in Austin Cambridge, visits parishioners (3.25) gvs Maiden Stone, Pictish standing stone near Inverurie - c/u shots of descriptive plaques - gvs Main looking at Persephone sculpture - Main talking to parishioner at door of cottage - gvs old arched bridge, junction with AA box, sheep sheltering behind wall, river (4.31) tracking shot from car down rough country road - Main pauses to look at ford on road, River Urie, then drives through water - gvs Main leaving farmhouse talking to woman, man carrying pail across farmyard - Main visits older man and woman in cottage - pan across Bennachie from Old Logie Road - Main drives towards Logie Durno churchyard and walks round - Main walks along village street with old woman to Geo. G. Duncan, Cycle Agent and Motor Hirer and talks to older man at gate (6.16) gvs disused railway station and overgrown track - c/u road sign to Meikle Wartle, Durno and Pitcaple, Main drives car along road - brief shot young child in field - gvs tractors cutting grass in field, unloading it in farmyard - gvs combine harvester at work in field, unloading grain into tractor trailer (8.44) gvs rally car racing around makeshift track in field - gvs Pitcaple Castle and grounds - c/u shots flowers - anglers on bank of river, one catches a fish - man and boys display their catches on plates (11.04) gvs cars outside church at Chapel of Garioch - c/u 'Order of Service for Induction of Minister' - ladies setting tables for 'induction tea' in church hall (11.31) gvs tractor pulling harrower across field (12.04) shot of explosion at quarry, clouds of dust rising - closer gvs quarry, mechanical digger clearing up debris - gvs rock face and rubble (13.10) l/shots Bennachie with gorse in foreground - gvs tractor cutting grass in field, combine harvester at work - tractors and hay balers working in field - children walking along country road - tractors collecting bales in field, taking them to barn (15.42) children playing in play-park at Logie Durno school - shots of Morris Traveller driving along country roads, tractor in field - gvs and details of Battle of Harlaw monument - gvs old bridge, l/s stone circle in field - dark shot monument - gv field with unusual stacked hay bales - tracking shot from car past bungalows - gvs straw burning in fields, woman setting fire to straw (18.23) brief shot road-signs to Inverurie, Fetternear, Monymusk and Chapel of Garioch - gvs road junction, bridge and River Don, cow and calf in field, Bennachie in distance, farm, road-sign for Blairdaff and Chapel of Garioch - Forestry Commission sign for Bennachie Forest, sign for Logie House Hotel, l/s hotel (19.47) gvs Armistice Day Service at Chapel of Garioch, Scouts, Cubs, Brownies, Guides and parishioners gathered round war memorial - c/u shot Rev. Main - cars outside churchyard - gvs sunset over Bennachie (20.48)