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Title: DOUGLAS MICKEL AMATEUR COMPILATION: Criterion Film Club Tests, Trips to Arran and Bute, Scottish Flying Club Fete, Glasgow High School Sports, Opening of Glasgow University Union, Family Memories

Reference number: 6263

Date: 1930 - 1931

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 33.28 mins

Description: A compilation of amateur footage from 1930 - 1931 taken by a young Douglas Mickel. Featuring, for example Criterion Film Club Tests, Trips to Arran and Bute, Scottish Flying Club Fete, Glasgow High School Sports, Opening of Glasgow University Union, Family Memories.

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 599, manual control track]

(0.00) Spare Wheels scenes from the Alpha Film Co's Premier Production gvs young people (including Jimmy Miller, Ruth Gordon and W. Young) enacting a drama involving car? Girl looks at poster 'Do you wish to be shot? If so join the Criterion Cine Club and see more of yourself on the screen! Think of Lon Chaney then look at yourself! You too can become famous by joining the Criterion Cine Club. Headquarters' - shot on location at Turnberry - a boy gives her papers / they get chatting, some other man passes and looks displeased (father?) - various test shots / exposure sunlight / sky etc a rabbit (2.33) DW Mickel presents A VISIT TO BUTE Easter 1930 On the Clyde gvs landscapes as the boat moves - Arran, as seen from Bute gvs same - The Cumbrae gvs same - Bute Loch Fad gvs same - Ardbeg gvs same, building in view incl. church - Wm A Cowan, Director - Comedian same passing camera making face - Wild Life at Ettrick Bay Cowan pulls faces, jumps about, climbs tree, shot of cows in field - The Aftermath Cowan yawning and stretching - Interruption Cowan sitting on rock pulling socks up - A tree growing round a rock pointing at same - The road to OtherendofBute lonely road winds in frame, gvs sea - Bute The End (3.59) TAYMOUTH Easter 1930 ; An untinned specimen caught in the Tay shot of man displaying huge fish - Major Clay, who is said to have caught it holds fish to camera, children dance around in ring, people stand posing with fish for camera - Joie de Vivre! children play and laugh - mountain scenery - gvs construction work in country, possibly hydro-electric power station - bridge, rushing river - gvs Taymouth Castle - view as seen from above, children playing - [lots of flash frames] scenics, river and bridge - lamb (6.06) Inversnaid Loch Lomond boating, waterfall - Livy at work... inspecting tree branch taking samples of leaves etc? - ...& Livy at play brief shot The End (6.25) gvs Scottish Flying Club Fete, Craigend Castle, Mugdock - grounds of castle, aeroplane display overhead, monoplane and De Havilland Gipsy Moth G-AAFY (7.21) gvs Glasgow High School Sports at Anniesland, 1930. gvs sack race David Mickel's father/teacher - wheelbarrow race, Anniesland tenements in background, high jump (9.29) at Renfrew airfield, cranking up aeroplane engine, gvs De Havilland Gipsy Moth G-AAFY, various shots aeroplanes in air and on airfield, including Gipsy Moth G-AAVY (10.41) Isle of Man, holiday shots cliffs, hotel on cliffs at Onchan Head; boy inspecting wild flower and referring to notebook - Laxey wheel and overlooking valley - historical pageant, fancy dress on horses tournament, beach and bay - view of Onchan Head from amusement park - shots on The Rapids slide - horse racing in military uniform, horse display? huge ball in centre of field that the riders trying to 'push' ? jumping, standing up on horses etc they seem to be in fancy dress? (13.29) walking in gardens Rushen Abbey in Isle of Man, ruined abbey gvs, they drive by in huge car - gvs Douglas harbour, boats, horse tram bay scenes, quick shot of them enjoying picnic, performing seals- view from a moving roller coaster (16.40) D W Mickel presents Attractive Arran lady sewing, bird in cage, swimming in sea, mountains, lighthouse - boys play fighting - waterfall - boys hiking nearby - swimming in sea again, Brodick pier, playing in garden, on bikes at holiday home, older women in garden - exts Brodick Castle, steamer at pier - kittens, more swimming at pier, bay - men weigh themselves on scales in street - bay - boys on walk, sights incl. stepping stones river, campsite with tents? gvs scenics - gvs swimming at pier, tennis - steamer unid, motorboat - Farewell Arran! people lined up on Whiting Bay pier, loads of people wave goodbye as the camera pulls away - The End (22.03) DUMBRECK - Scenes of devastation after the recent thunderstorm gvs same (22.16) Dunbar Swimming Pool gvs same, outdoor, rough waters! - Turnberry Hotel exts same The End - horse riding - family in garden - sports games in grounds of large house - family in garden - dogs, pigs running about - flash frames, more gvs family posing around house and gardens - group of boys and girls in yard on Scotland Street, Glasgow - various family members? (26.34) Glasgow University opening of the new union by Mr Baldwin 12th Dec. 1930; Lord Provost Kelly [blurry] they enter building - Leaving the old union after breakfast there same - The procession to the new union same - Mr Baldwin opening the new union crowd - Sir Donald MacAlister & Principal Rait unfurling two flags presented to the union same, from low vantage point looking upwards - exts Union building - brief shot young men walking from car; aerials of Dumbreck area taken from plane [notes 'Franks's trip in plane Dumbreck] (28.06) Alpha Tests fiction piece? featuring student film members acting out a drama with a man drinking weird drink? people looking at 'test results'? The End (29.10) ladies in furs leave house with man (poss D Mickel's father?) - building site, lots of timber, flattened ground pipes piled up beside house frames etc Kings Park Avenue - brief shots of students' day parade, 'Varsity Bank'? with posters 'Pay Up or Ah'll Get Ye' - digger at Kings Park Ave digging earth - horse and cart is visible towards background helping - soil is dug with machine and then loaded onto horse drawn cart - huge pipe is manhandled with ropes and workers into place (30.33) Alpha Tests Balmaha [1/2/31] group of students taking samples from stony shore - rowing boat - dog in snow [notes mention 'Peter in snow 1/2/31'] - bowling club, gvs bowling lady [notes mention opening by Mrs A M Niel'?] as he takes bowl from table and throws, view of crowded stand watching - bouquet of flowers presented to tennis player, ladies in furs walk by - model boat [Maxwell Park 23/5/31] incl. paddle steamer etc - [YA U fete 26/6/31] ladies stand, men unfurl poster 'Abstain - Drink in the driver means danger on the road' and aerial looking over fete crowds - various family? [according to notes Nancy Scott, Moira Lynch, Mother 1931] The End (33.28)