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Title: SCOTLAND / DUMFRIES DISTRICT INFIRMARY CHILDREN'S WARD

Reference number: 8330

Date: 1938 - 1939

Director: [filmed by Arthur E.S. Irvine]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 16.33 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the Irvine family on holiday in Argyll and at the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, and shots of the Dumfries area, including activities at Nithbank Hospital and the Grove Convalescent Home and a military parade.

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(0.00) blank - Kodak leader (0.09) gvs countryside landscape, sheep in field - shots of mechanical harvester at work in field, pulled by three horses - gvs of field with hay bales - gvs of field with cows and chickens (1.29) shots of women and children playing in water on sandy beach, floating on lilo - shots of group of people, including Frances Irvine, paddling in water, possibly the Solway, with fishing nets in background (2.10) underexposed shots of Nithbank Hospital in Dumfries on snowy day, car passing on road, trees covered with snow - gvs of pigs in sty and field - brief m/s of two young girls - gvs of fields with sheep, lambs, horse and cattle - landscape gv (4.00) gvs of Highland Show in Dumfries, shots of Clydesdale horses, visitors, show-jumping event, pipe band marching across showground - shots of equestrian 'musical chairs' event - shots of visitors walking around, including Richard, Frances and Evelyn Irvine - gvs of ponies being exhibited on showground - shots of mounted military band and display by military horsemen, possibly Lancers - gvs of show-jumping event - shots of Frances and Evelyn walking past display of ploughs (6.35) landscape gvs, river and hills - shots of Glenfinnan Monument and Loch Shiel, railway viaduct - shots of Evelyn and Frances having picnic - gvs of mountain and steamer passing along loch - gvs of river and Falls of Morar? - high gv of loch and mountains, man with boat at water's edge - gvs of small ferry approaching slipway, passengers disembarking, car being driven on to ferry (9.11) l/s Wallace Monument - gvs of Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, including shots of the Canada and Australia pavilions, l/s Tower of Empire - shots of Frances and Evelyn walking around (9.43) landscape gvs, river, forest and hills, bridge - brief shot of young girls sliding down grassy bank (10.25) shot of bay and beach, waves crashing against rocks - gvs of waterfall - shots of sheep in field - gvs of swollen River Nith in Dumfries, weir, bridges in distance (11.27) gvs of Sweetheart Abbey - gvs of nurses and young children outside hospital building - gvs of Caerlaverock Castle and Frances walking along woodland path - gvs of Nithbank Hospital - shots of cots and toys on terrace outside children's ward - shots of nurses playing with children and toys, wheeling cot back into ward - shots of nurses playing with children - gvs inside children's ward - nurses having tea party with children (14.31) c/u shot of sign on gate 'The Grove Convalescent Home - Opened 3rd November 1938' - l/s Drummond House, [The Grove] near Terregles - shots of nurses gathered on lawn of The Grove with woman in wheelchair - shots of groups of nurses and patients, some in wheelchairs (15.13) gvs of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, with crowds of people gathered outside - shots of pipe band playing in street outside - l/s of group of people including military officers entering church - gvs of crowds and Burns statue, Mid Steeple, crowds watching as military parade with pipe band and veterans comes down street past Union flag on podium - shots of army officers around cars (16.33)