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Title: SKIING AT GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY; WATERSKIING AT LOCH LOMOND AND ANTIBES, FRANCE; SKIING AT GLENSHEE; Universities Ski Championships, Cairngorms

Reference number: 6257

Date: 1963 / 1965

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.11 mins

Description: A compilation of amateur footage taken by Douglas Mickel. Includes skiing at Grantown on Spey, Waterskiing at Loch Lomond and Antibes, Skiing at Glenshee and the Universities Ski Championships, Cairngorms.

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 182, 192, 196/7, 204/5, 218/9, 220 - 225.

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) [Easter 1963, Grantown-on-Spey] at the The National Trust for Scotland 'White Lady Sheiling', gvs skiing, including chairlifts going up mountain, hundreds of people on the slopes (0.46) slalom skiing - Marjorie Mickel walks her dog on snow (1.33) views over the mountains, people on chairlift - group of skiers make their way to summit - nursery slopes, learners - gvs mountainscape (3.00) c/u sign reading 'Rothiemurchus, Glenmore, Cairngorm, Inshriach' and pan to landscape - car park at slopes, and gvs Mickel children skiing (4.41) man unpacks cases from car - brief shot jetty, Loch Lomond, shot of rowing boat, gvs waterskiing as seen from moving motor boat (5.56) shot of Douglas Mickel in wetsuit on jetty, gvs him waterskiing - family on jetty, playing with dog and preparing for next person to go waterskiing - gvs waterskiing (6.37) [August 1963] Antibes, France in the sunshine, gvs waterskiing (7.54) approach to Forth Road Bridge, driving through toll and crossing as seen from front of moving car - continuing along road (8.27) [24th January 1965] car park at 'Spittal of Glenshee Hotel', gvs as people queue up and hire ski equipment which they then try on for size - gvs snow covered Glenshee, children take skiing lessons - T Bar Tow - Glenshee chairlift in action - gvs children skiing - ski tow and skiing (13.23) Scottish Daily Mail Universities Ski Championships, Cairngorms, young people throw snowballs - gvs skiiing high up on slopes - participants have sports vests with numbers on, includes some slalom (16.11)