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Title: LOCAL FILM FROM KIRKINTILLOCH AREA

Reference number: 0749

Date: 1935

Director: [filmed by Mr Fletcher ]

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20.00 minsc

Description: An amateur film of scenes in the Kirkintilloch area including Ettrick Bay fun fair, steamers on the Clyde and paddle steamers on the Forth and Clyde canal.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected VHS copy, manual control track]

REEL I

[no credits] Shots of soldiers marching (0.03) Shots on the deck of a boat. Gvs of sailors and passengers. Seagulls in water, probably Loch Fyne (0.39) Shots ashore (1.01) Gvs of woodland area. country lanes and river (2.31) Steamer, probably the "Queen Mary II", as she leaves pier. Passengers boarding steamer (3.11) Shots of Miss Fletcher in garden with friends (3.33) Shots of swans in canal basin at Kirkintilloch (3.44) Shots of traffic crossing Townhead Bridge (4.32) Gvs of a large parade. A woman waving from a horse drawn carriage (4.38) Gvs of boats on a canal (4.43) Countryside shots. Women walking and playing with a dog. Shots of goats [part of a municipal scheme to provide milk, Tom Johnston's original idea] (4.59) Children playing on a rowing boat on a loch (5.30) Shots of various boats in the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch, including canal paddle steamer, "Gipsy Queen". Traffic crossing swing bridge (6.04) Shots of the canal as the steamer comes along. Passengers board the "Gipsy Queen". Going through the swing bridge (7.01) Scenes at Ettrick Bay funfair, including shots of children on a narrow gauge railway (7.33) shots of Provost Fletcher's wife in a garden, knitting with friends (8.00) Provost Fletcher and his wife in the garden (9.23) Gvs of the grounds of a large house (9.37) Shots of mobile grocery shop van in street and then in a country road. Double decker bus on a country road [underexposed sections] (9.56) Shots of a puffer at repair slip on Forth and Clyde Canal (10.25) Birds and bird table (10.39) Garden gnome beside small pond [again underexposed] (10.56) shots of a snow covered street and countryside (11.12) Three shire horses pulling a plough.

REEL II
[no credits] (12.21) Gvs snow covered countryside including a river and waterfall (13.22) Shots of two shire horses pulling plough. Man digging in field (14.21) Field on fire, possibly burning off heather. (14.30) Shots of children feeding the pigeons in town square, possibly Rothesay (14.48 ) Passengers leave the paddle steamer "Juno" at Rothesay (15.20) Shots of single funnelled paddle steamer and [unidentified ]passenger ship (15.42) Shots of sheep being herded on a street (15.52) Gvs of a paddle steamer sailing a loch (16.16) Women and children walking on a Rothesay street (16.29) Rough seas crashing over promenade (17.29) Boys eating sandwiches, possibly Campsie Glen (17.38) Gvs of a waterfall, woods and countryside (18.31) Rowing boats with Rothesay pier in the background (18.54) Steamer, possibly "Lochfyne" (19.09) People on crowded beach, possibly Ettrick Bay (19.32) Woman leaving a large house (19.42) Men at swimming pool having a pillow fight on beam balanced over water. (20.22) Gvs of a steamer on the loch. Shots from steamer, deck and the loch (20.41) Gvs of a harbour. (20.47) Steamers travelling on a canal (21.02) [no ecs]