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Title: ARDO VISITORS BOOK, the

Reference number: 3372

Date: 1935c

Director: [filmed by Captain Loutit]

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.55 mins

Description: Scenes of Ardo House Aberdeenshire, 1935.

See The Way It Was, (progs 63, 64 and 70) Tx 1995, p.c. Grampian Television for local inhabitant Bill Reid's commentary on people and places.

Found by Session Clerk in cupboard on balcony of church 1994 with ref. 3371 BELHELVIE JUBILEE GAZETTE.

Shotlist: Title. "Welcome Ever Smiles" Arrival of Col. D. Burges, Salonika's V.C. (0.08) Couple arrive by car at large house [Ardo?]; c/u [oof] Col. D Burges (0.36) Mrs Macdonald and Mrs H Noyes ms ladies climb into car and drive away; c/u same, each turning from full face to profile Major Noyes and Mr C Brumfield ls two men holding shotguns walking slowly over a lawn, before aiming; c/up each man (1.32) J M Spalding of 58 Union Street shot man standing in the doorway of a shop (1.39) Major and Mrs J R Hay of Ellon. three ladies walk along a wooded path; c/u same; man practising golf Mrs and Miss Hargreaves c/us same, wearing fashionable hats; c/u pekinese dog and puppy (2.58) Mrs Pickthorn 'Tina' c/u of face; women walk towards camera; woman watering rock garden; another c/u woman's profile (3.42) Young girl dressed as bride, two girls [twins?] carrying her train; c/u girl turning her head (3.56) snow covered grounds of Ardo House (3.55)