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Title: CHILDREN AT PLAY

Reference number: 8745

Date: 1968/ 1969

Director: filmed by Mr Egan

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.53 mins

Description: Children attending the volunteer-run Bo'ness Nursery Playgroup, playing with a great variety of toys in an outdoor courtyard of Old St Mary's school, followed by a fancy dress parade and children's tea party.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from avi. file captured from speed corrected Digital Betacam tape]

Cartoon of a boy and girl on a see-saw (.04) Title (.06) gvs children playing with toys and water activity, reading and drawing in chalk in a small courtyard, fenced off with chairs (1.45) children threading beads, working with "Animal Lacing cards" and shape puzzles at activity tables and dressing up (3.26) children play house (3.47) children on slide, others play drums and cymbals (3.59) ints. children parade in fancy dress, play with balloons (4.44) c/u tables set for tea party with coloured plastic buckets as chairs; parents guide children in to sit down (5.53)