IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE

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Title: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Reference number: 1958

Date: 1955

Director: filmed by H.J. Blackie (Scotland) Bob Janson (African)

Sound: mute

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15 mins, c

Description: An account of the life of the explorer David Livingstone, the film returns to his birthplace and retraces his footsteps through Africa.

Film won Marshall Quaich cup at the 1956 Scottish International Amateur Film Festival.

Note: Donor unable to locate original soundtrack which was recorded on audio cassette.

Credits: sc. H.J. Blackie
[distributed by Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust]

Shotlist: No credits. Shots of Livingston's birthplace and district. Brief shot of Anderson's College of Medicine in Glasgow and the sailing ship "Carrick" moored on the Clyde (c3.00); Scenes in Africa of landscape and native population reconstructing events in Livingstone's time on the continent (c15.00).