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

Title: FORTROSE CELEBRATIONS / PLANTING CORN / FORTROSE HARBOUR AND REGATTA

Reference number: 8331

Date: 1947* / 1954*

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

Production company: Commercials by Peak films.

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 14.42 mins

Description: Amateur footage of events in the Fortrose area, including the celebration of St. Boniface Fair, the cycle of growing corn on a local farm and brief shots of a regatta.

[Please note the viewing copy may display some visible defects such as flicker.]

Shotlist: [shot-listed from .AVI file using Quicktime]

[BW] (0.00) blank (0.09) [SAWDUST RING] (3.20) [THE ART OF JUDO] (6.27) gvs of Fortrose Cathedral - shots of pipe band parading near cathedral - gvs of townspeople seated on chairs, photographers on platform with loudspeaker - shots of guests mounting platform, speeches, Scottish country dancers performing - shots of group of men and women dressed in mediaeval costume for St. Boniface Fair - landscape gvs, coastline and small village (9.16) [COL] shots of a farmer ploughing a field using hand plough and two Clydesdale horses - c/u shot of corn seeds on ground - gvs ploughed field, trees and clouds - c/u shots of corn stalks starting to grow, gvs of field and trees - gvs of field with longer shoots - c/u shots of ears of corn growing - gvs of cornfield - shots of farmer cutting corn with traditional scythe - shots of tractor pulling harvester cutting corn - gvs of field with corn stooks, shots of plough horse on pasture - shots of haystacks at edge of field - shots of chickens in farmyard - shots of farm-workers and belt-driven threshing machine at work (13.34) shots of another group of farmers working at a threshing machine in farmyard - shots of farm-worker tying up bags of corn (13.59) high shots of regatta at Fortrose harbour, yachts and schooner on Beauly Firth and cars parked in foreground (14.25) blank (14.42)