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Title: CERES: The Story of a Fifeshire Village

Reference number: 9845

Date: 1949*

Director: filmed by A.H. Milne

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 22.45 mins

Description: Amateur footage of local community activities and events in and around the village of Ceres in Fife.

Shotlist: Ceres, The Story of a Fifeshire Village; production and photography by A. H. Milne; several scenes of buildings, people walking around the village, shopping, weeding gardens, a young man riding a horse, delivery of produce and goods to village shops, shot of fields around the village, birds in the burn; “Blackie Boi”, the Talking dog of Ceres; shots of dogs posing for the camera; children in costumes & fancy dress at a harvest fete, various stalls, animals on display, baby competition; Ceres Games, monument plaque to the ‘men of Ceres’ who fought at Bannockburn, scenes of Highland Games, kilted athletes hurling the shotput, running, Highland dancing, tossing the caber, comic and cabaret dancing, wrestling, cycling, horse racing, [horse racing final run filmed in slow motion]; Ancient History, young children at the old town jail; various folk posing for camera outside the village shops; sign above building: “John Pryde, joiner, cabinetmaker & undertaker”, group of men building a wooden shed; Visitors from India; two Indian women posing for camera with Kirk Minister and villagers; Granny Todd’s Garden, an elderly lady holding a baby posing for camera, a garden made up of flower beds bordered by shell sculptures made up as model scale buildings and shapes; The Village School, the pupils lined up and posing for the camera, children making up a model village, dancing in a circle outside in the playground, gardening ; The Little Church on the Hill, a man playing an organ, a choir singing, inside the kirk; panning shot of a hayfield; “Tally-Ho!!”; huntsmen in riding uniforms, with dog pack, on horseback heading out from the village along a rural road; shots of common beech trees, other trees in autumnal colours, panning shots of various trees in blossom; shot of a sunset; The End;