Please read Understanding catalogue records for help interpreting this information and Using footage for more information about accessing this film.

Title: ORKNEY

Reference number: 7348

Date: 1959*

Director: [attributed to James Anderson]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.32 mins

Description: A trip by car around the North of Scotland and Orkney. Much of the footage is shot from a moving vehicle.

Shotlist: [no title] man fixing camera to car (0.14) still shot of man in car with camera now set up (0.16) Camera fixed to side of car so that the footage represents what the driver sees. Gv's of the landscape (1.08) exts dam (1.41) car moving along country roads. exts Errochty power station (2.32) control room at plant (2.37) gvs travelling along country roads, brief shot passing by campsite, hillwalking party, driving round the Devil's Elbow, passing by a party of horse riders (4.52) exts and ints power station [Fasnakyle power station, Glen Affric]. Man in new control room (6.00) gvs travelling along roads, one stage has the road under construction but still passable (7.25) approach to Kylesku Ferry and then getting off the ferry (NB don't actually see footage on moving ferry) (7.42) near Scourie village? gvs travelling along again (8.07) travelling along nice newly resurfaced road to Dounreay (8.31) ints Dounreay visitor centre interior (8.44) l/s Dounreay (8.52) l/s of Scrabster pier; loading car on ferry using crane (9.10) Stromness from the viewpoint of a driver, driving through narrow streets (9.57) landscape and coastline scenic (10.04) gvs Ring o' Brodgar, c/u standing stone (10.31) shot travelling through main street, Finstown (10.45) ruined cottage, woman and pram standing alongside with children (10.59) gvs approach to and through Kirkwall by car, coastline, passing Earl's Palace at Birsay (11.56) gvs Skara Brae, one shot seems to include men cutting the grass (?) (12.53) gvs driving along Kirkwall pier, around Kirkwall (14.30) Churchill Barriers, crossing by car and gvs blockships (17.00) exts and ints Italian Chapel (17.32) c/u swans (18.04) gvs Broch of Gurness (18.50) ruins of a WWII coastal battery at Yesnaby, gvs waves crashing against some rocks, seabirds on ledges, Yesnaby Castle sea stack (20.44) shot alongside ferry, gvs as car travels along country roads and through town (21.13) driving into grounds of Gordonstoun School (21.32)