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Title: AUTUMN TINTS

Reference number: 4490

Date: 1942 - 1943

Director: [filmed by Alex Lowe]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.45 mins

Description: Aircraft being paraded through Musselburgh on the back of a trailer. [first German plane to be shot down over Britain in the war, at Lammermuirs] Loading crates of rhubarb onto a trailer; rows and rows of lettuces; earth steaming in the wooden growing containers. All outside plots. [Tom Johnstone visits]

Alex Lowe was keen cinematographer, active in local politics. Family owned market garden business. During war experimented in underground heating to grow early vegetables and it is thought by the family that this was the reason for Tom Johnstone 's (Secretary of State) visit.

See Addit info - notes from donor. Paper archive 11/1/347.

Original reel length 250 feet, sections only retained.

Written on original can :- ABERDEEN. BINNING WOODS. STONEYHILL GARDEN. FATHER, GRANNY, GINA ETC. TOM JOHNSTON AT BURNSIDE. Written on reel :- 1940 BINNING WOODS ABERDEEN ( SANDY, JEAN, BABY. SANDRA 5TH BIRTHDAY. COL. GEO. LOWE. PONY & TRAP. GERMAN AEROPLANE (SHOT DOWN NR HUMBIE). PRESTONPANS. VISIT BY TOM JOHNSTON. RHUBARB IN FEBRUARY STONEYHILL, GEORGE, ARTHUR, DAVID.

Shotlist: [shot-listed from VHS - manual control track]

[no title] - shots of Luftwaffe Heinkel 111 being towed by a truck along Musselburgh High Street after being shot down at North Berwick, crowds watching on street (0.23) shots of Arthur Lowe and workers in a field loading boxes of harvested rhubarb on to a trailer - brief shot of tank engine passing end of field (0.44) shots of a visit to the Lowes' market garden by Secretary of State for Scotland Tom Johnston and other officials - group inspects lettuce planting beds as David Lowe talks to Johnston - c/u shot of lettuce - Lowe points out features to group, as steam rises from pipes in planting bed - mid shots of Johnston and Lowe chatting, pan across group of officials (1.45)