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Title: CAITHNESS

Reference number: 4377

Date: 1955

Director: [filmed by David Sime]

Sponsor: The Scottish Countryside Club

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.35 mins

Description: Amateur footage of coasts, fishing activities and rural housing around Caithness.

David Sime was a pharmacist, photographer and President of the Scottish Countryside Club, which promoted the enjoyment of nature and the outdoors, hillwalking and rambling, as well as holding social events such as an annual concert and garden parties, with much hilarity in evidence. The club travelled all over Scotland, but many walks were held near to the central belt, with outings to locations such as the Trossachs and Loch Lomond proving popular. Mr Sime’s films depicted traditional industries such as farming and fishing, as well as scenic landscapes and walks. Many of these landscapes remain unchanged, but the style and the gear of the walkers is very different to the equipment of today’s adventurers.

Credits: The Scottish Countryside Club presents

Shotlist: The Countryside Club presents (0.07) ext. shot "Duke of Portland" whitewashed house, with stags horns adorning the outer walls; sunset over landscape; fishermen at Berridale harbour hauling nets into shore, and hanging them on a network of poles (to dry?) (1.59) rocks on the shore line, c/u flowers; shot of bee keeper at hive; landscape (4.37) Wick castle; rock stacks in sea(5.35) gvs Wick harbour, fishermen at work on boats (6.25) Nosshead lighthouse; wick castle (7.01) pointed rock stacks in sea, at Duncansby (7.35)