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Title: SKIING AT DEVIL'S ELBOW; GEORDIE ARRIVES; LARGS; GRANGEMOUTH; FAMILY SCENES AT CRIEFF

Reference number: 6268

Date: 1958 - 1959

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.08 mins

Description: A compilation of amateur footage taken by Douglas Mickel. Features, for example, a skiing trip to Devil's Elbow, the arrival of a new family dog, a visit to gran and grandad at Largs, a children's party and games.

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

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 original 16mm]

[col] car driving along snowy path, past Devil's Elbow (0.25) where the children sledge, silhouttes of skiers walking up mountain (1.10) Geordie Arrives Sept. 1959 [notes record date as 14/9/58] new dog, children play with it; Largs Sept. 1958 at Gran's (?) house they play with dog in beautifully tended garden, the house is Fluela, no. 2 (2.28) [b&w, very dark & underexposed] dog sitting inside, below Christmas tree? (2.38) [col] Paul sails home from Grangemouth March 1959 on dockside, Paul opens present of a tartan rug, boards ship 'Heriot' with the Mickel family (3.29) David Mickel gets the couple to sign a book (4.03) he waves goodbye (4.07) Largs, a car pulls up to door where chauffeur picks up Douglas Mickel's father and mother (?) and drives off (5.08) driving through Crieff, as seen from car and then to house (5.35) Marjorie and Angela (Douglas Mickel's wife and daughter) enter house, ints Marjorie sitting reading paper and looking out with binoculars over rolling landscape (5.53) Angela in garden looking at pond, learning how to horse ride with other children (6.37) Marjorie, gran, two daughters standing outside house (6.50) family gathering, children play tennis in garden, the dog is brushed, the adults admire the flowers, they say goodbye (the family being visited is possibly Douglas Mickel's brother?) (8.16) children's party in garden, the girls all wear party dresses, play pin the tail on the donkey (8.57) [blurry] car driving (9.08)