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Title: CHILDREN PLAYING DURING WWII

Reference number: 9862

Date: 1941c

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.06 mins

Description: Amateur family footage of children playing during World War II and a visit to Ettrick Bay on Bute.

Shotlist: [no title] - gvs women, young girl and baby in house back garden - woman and girl picking flowers in front garden - girl running around garden (1.08) gvs miniature steam railway at Ettrick Bay on Bute, train going round track and through tunnel, tourists wave at camera (1.40) group of boys and girls on playing fields, posing for camera, making faces, dancing in a circle, walking past camera, running into brick-built 'Air Raid Shelter', laughing and pointing at the sky, running and climbing on each other's backs (3.21) boys pretend one of the girls is a casualty and carry her away - boys wrestling (3.37) young girl sitting on chair in garden, playing with doll, throwing it away, petting spaniel - man carries girl on his shoulders - young girl playing with kitten - woman and girl in garden (4.54) woman wearing fur coat standing in garden holding baby in thick woollen suit - baby lying in pram (6.06)