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Title: INTERNATIONAL SCOUT CAMP AT BRITTANY

Reference number: 9960

Date: 1947*

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.30 mins

Description: International Scout Camp held in Brittany, France with lots of Scottish Scout troops in attendance. Intertitles throughout add a fun description of activities such as preparing meals together, constructing a makeshift kitchen, and singing round the camp fire.

Shotlist: Scout troops on a train (?). Sign for Bretagne. Gv's of scout camp. Boys building tent structures with wood. Shots taken from a small railway or a car that runs through the camp. Some structures are large - international scout gathering(?). Book opens Lunch with our Belgian friends. Scout troops meet and sing songs. C/u of the domestic structures built at the camp. Washing line, stove, tables. Scouts have lunch. C/u of plate and utility rack. Gv's of a draw bridge constructed at one camp site. BHQ Kitchen Area Scouts constructing the kitchen area and cooking. The Scots staged a wizard show. Pan up a wooden tower. Pan of scouts gathered in an arena. Scottish scout troops in kilts perform traditional dances. Entrance to the Stirlingshire scout camp . Scouts eating, chopping wood,. Renfrewshire scout camp entrance. Scouts peeling potatoes. Edinburgh scout camp entrance. Scouts swimming in a river. Gv's of more scout troop camp sites, including those from America. Obstacle course. Shopping... No points! No Coupons!! Scouts at a market within the campsite. Scouts entering a building with postal facilities, telephone and telegraph. Scout master greets some of the older scouts. Ext. of the Bank. Gv's of the market. Scouts seated for a drink. Scout drinking from a cloth water flask. Camp fire. L/s of boys singing (?)