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Title: BORDER ANTHOLOGY

Reference number: 8290

Date: 1965 - 1983

Director: [filmed by Rev. John Jackson]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 19.17mins

Description: Amateur footage featuring Border lands including Berwick, Eyemouth, Yetholm, Galashiels, Edinburgh, Selkirk, Melrose and Flodden. It shows some of the traditions and customs of the area but mostly the film is a scenic tour.

Handwritten information on original can:- "Border Anthology 19?2 - 1965. Interest Colour History of Borderland Coast Country Life Legend and Story with re-edits from 10/2000 and Cine Round-Up Aug '82 ©. New leader 1989. New splices 1996.
Sequence synopsis: Roads. Envir colour. River. 18C Spring. Lion's Lodge. Floors / HD Trials. Farming / Ford. Hills. Yetholm. Braw Lad. Dry Abbey. Coast Region. Spraying Crop. Harvest. Guards Provost. Scott Bi-Cent. Flodden / Marmion?. Scott's Life. Time. Melrose. Hawick. Flodden. Par Max-Scott. Land of Magic History. Tweedside."

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS, manual control track]

[COL] gvs scenics including country roads, apple orchard, hedgerows, trees(0.51) gvs river (1.18) BORDER ANTHOLOGY SHOWING COLOUR, HISTORY, INTEREST OF THE BORDERLAND FILMED 1965 - 1982. JJ Films 16mm Production (1.43) Lion's Lodge [possibly the West Lodge entrance to Ladykirk House?] (2.30) gvs of Floors Castle. Horse trials, including some displaying carriages (4.46) gvs fields, cattle, sheep (5.29) river scenics (5.35) village street [Yetholm?] (5.46) bunting decorating street. pipes and drums marching along. gvs horses, celebrations in town, crowds [Braw Lad, Galashiels?] (6.49) speeches on balcony (6.59) countryside scenic views (7.13) exts Dryburgh Abbey ruins (7.31) gvs coastal scenes (7.42) Eyemouth harbour (8.12) gvs spraying crops (8.37) gvs landscapes and fields, harvesting hay with combine harvester (11.03) marching brass band, men in red and black uniform. children admire their uniform - Queen's crown is on it (11.37) children 'marching' children receive award (?) from assembled dignitaries (11.44) they march through town, children and townspeople chatting to them (12.28) SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771 - 1971 [BW] gvs Princes Street, Edinburgh. Scott Monument (12.49) road and c/u sign "Sir Walter Scott Bicentenary. You are entering Scott Country" view over Kelso (13.06) [COL] scenery landscape, Smailholm Tower, river (14.07) fields two white horses in field (14.36) gvs of Tantallon Castle (15.07) exploring rock formations on the shore (15.17) fields (15.48) c/u sign "Abbotsford Home of Sir Walter Scott" exts same and views from location. c/u memorial to Scott "in this building from 1803 - 1832 Sir WS as sheriff of Selkirkshire administered justice" gvs Selkirk town centre? (16.56) ints museum artefacts about Sir WS. (17.08) Melrose Abbey (18.05) unid. town street [Hawick?] (18.20) speeches to assembled open air crowd in field [possibly Flodden memorial] (18.50) gvs river Tweed in the summer sun - The End (19.17)