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Title: OBAN, SEIL AND CUAN; VISIT RAY MACLUNDIE ; BUILDING BRICK WALL AT 20 HILLPARK AVENUE, EDINBURGH

Reference number: 6248

Date: 1964

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.55 mins

Description: An amateur record of a Mickel family trip. Starts with brief shots in Oban, progressing to Seil Island, Cuan Sound and a visit to Ray McLundie's house (?). Finishes with footage of a brick wall being laid at Douglas Mickel's house in Edinburgh.

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 216/7.

See also HOMEBUILDERS: Mactaggart and Mickel and the Scottish housebuilding industry ed. Miles Glendinning and Diane Watters, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from Betacam SP 597, manual control track]

(0.00) [no title credits] very brief shot Douglas Mickel and wife sitting enjoying the sunshine hand in hand, their son (?) smoking a cigarette beside them (0.10) moving shot as seen from front windscreen of car along Oban street - crossing rural roadway and the 'Bridge over the Atlantic' to Seil Island, gvs the family exploring (0.50) whitewashed houses, shot of bay - throwing stones on the stony / slatey beach, possibly Cuan Sound (1.20) exts Isle of Seil Woodwork shop and exts Easdale Post Office, seen in shot are Douglas Mickel's wife and mother in law (?) - gvs island and bay (1.48) c/u an old iron water pump (?) in garden of very rusty and derelict house (2.04) view from moving car parking outside house (belonging to Ray McLundie?), with lovely view over bay (2.27) laying bricks for a wall at Douglas Mickel's house (20 Hillpark Avenue, Edinburgh), a plaque is incorporated inscribed with the date '1854' (2.55)