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Title: LANARK RACECOURSE AND RENFREWSHIRE HUNT

Reference number: 0775

Date: 1931 / 1937*

Director: [filmed by John P. Ritchie]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.00 mins

Description: Scenes at Lanark racecourse, the Renfrewshire hunt, a ship being towed down the Clyde and animals in Manchester zoo. [Incomplete]

See also ref 0784

Shotlist: No credits. Shot of man getting into car helped by chaffeur (.04); Man with blood stained bandage on his head, possibly a victim of a fall during horse-racing (.17); Two men lead horse into a horse box (.45); Various scenes of spectators, officials, riders and races and Lanark racecourse. Several shots of distinguished people, including Lord Inverclyde, Master of the Hunt, first seen in riding gear and then in a coat and hat. Also Mr. Young of Tate and Lyle, Lady Robertson and the Duchess of Montrose riding side-saddle. Shots of gathering at beginning of hunt intercut with general views of the activities at the racecourse, placing bets etc. (6.49); Shots of hunt and riders in the field (7.01); Men wearing plus fours climb over a fence by a country lane (7.16); Shots down the River Clyde at Erskine as the "Empress of Britain" is towed down river by tugs (7.31); Profile of vessel as it passes camera (8.04); Some amateur "shots" at the Zoo with the Ensign Autokinecam. Ensign Limited. Shots of various animals in a Manchester zoo, intercut with captions such as Ensign British throughout. Shots of lions, leopards, snake, brown bear, children riding an elephant and camel, a cockatoo and penguins (10.21); [Incomplete].