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Title: SING OF THE BORDER

Reference number: 5102

Date: [1964]

Director: d. Tony Thompson

Sponsor: British Transport

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.59 mins

Description: An outline of the scenery, lifestyle and local industries of the Borders accompanied by traditional song.

Credits: Ian Wallace, Constance Mullay, Lisa Turner and Rory McEwan
w. and d. Tony Thompson and completed after his death by Muir Mathieson and Kenneth Fairbairn.
ph. Trevor Roe, Ernest Xerri
ed. Ian Woolf
m.d. Muir Mathieson
sd.rec. Anvil Films
ass.ed Jane Wood
ass.cam. Gordon Clarke
p. Edgar Anstey

Shotlist: credits (0.05) illustrated map of Borders as opening sequence (1.12) pan shots of snow covered landscapes (1.46) gvs Borders landscape (2.05) shots of heather blazing (2.24) Flodden -1513- battlefield, monument and woodland (4.24) shots of castles of families involved in battle of Flodden, some ruined (5.13) pan shot of landscape in sunshine towards horizon (5.53) shot of castle from water (6.00) shots of hilly sheep country (6.25) shepherd and sheep dogs walking towards camera with scenic landscape in background (6.36) sheep dog approaching sheep (6.40) brief shot of shepherd whistling a command (6.42) sheep dog approaching flock of sheep and being headed off by large ram (6.52) c/u sheep dog (6.54) c/u ram (6.57) shepherd chasing, catching with his crook and bagging two lambs whilst other sheep look on (7.28) shepherd unties one lamb and puts it in a pen with snowy hills in background (8.43) c/u's of Abbey architecture including Drybrough, Melrose, Kelso and Jedburgh (9.46) int. shots of Sir Walter Scott's home at Abbotsford (10.40) tweed weaving machinery in operation (11.33) int. shot of brewery (11.40) shots of casks being loaded onto a truck and driven through Borders landscape (12.19) pan shot of landscape from a height (12.47) shots of fishing techniques using a small boat and manual reeling in of net (13.41) tractor ploughing field (14.24) men and women sorting wheat or barley by hand and by pitchfork (14.56) woman in grocer's shop packing assorted messages she has bought (15.38) families playing at side of Tweed (16.37) aerial view of Riding of Marches procession along main street in town (16.47) horses being ridden in river and crowds at edge (17.07) shots of procession of riders through fields, alongside River Tweed and through Borders Hills (18.31) ecs (18.59)