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Title: SUMMER CAMP AUGUST 1977 LOCHNELL ESTATE LEDAIG ARGYLL

Reference number: 9457

Date: 1977, August

Director: filmed by John T. K. Barr

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.49 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a summer scout camp in Argyll, including campsite activities and trips to Oban and Ben Nevis.

For further information about John (Ian) T. K. Barr, see:
http://www.jtkb.info/ [last accessed 22/06/2020]

Obituary of Barr published in the Glasgow Herald, November 2007: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12453549.john-t-k-barr/ [last accessed 22/06/2020]

For other films in this collection see also refs. 9456, 9458, 9459, 9460, 9461 and 9462

Additional information file held at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive at ref. 11/1/562.

Shotlist: Scout flag for the ‘7th Paisley JNI 61st Renfrewshire’. BIELD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS - title - van arrives at camp and is unpacked by the scouts. They put up tents, collect water and put together furniture. MORNING - The scouts have breakfast and shave before the dishes are washed and the tents and equipment are organised - inspection by the leaders (with mistakes highlighted). The flag is unfurled and the Scout prayer said. Shot of a flag pole with sign 'Heron'. Brief shots of tuck shops. EXPLORING OUR AREA - boy looking through a telescope. Shot of Lady Margaret’s Tower on the Lochnell Estate and shots of the boys at the top of the tower. Boys walking through the countryside. Cooking. Dinner is served. SURVIVAL PROJECT - A boy is shown with a skirt of leaves and handmade bows. The boys make a shelter out of leaves and branches. ASSAULT COURSE - a packet for an Airstrip dressing is shown and the boys climbing ropes and trees etc. First aid is given and shots of Lochnell Castle. The boys stack hay bales on the estate surrounding the castle and load them on to a tractor. Using metal detectors in a pond. Riding horses on a beach. Swimming. Shot of books ‘Scout Pioneering’ and ‘Progressive Pioneering’. The boys suspending one of the tents up high using trees. The scouts then get the bus to Oban. Shots of Oban Bay including the McCaig's Folly. PATROL HIKES - The planning of the trip is shown. PLs OUTING - Shot of the exterior of the Ben Nevis Distillery and shots of the boys hill walking. HIGHLAND GAMES - spoof Highland Games, boys in costumes, carry in the contestants before races, tossing the caber and other activities. The film ends with the flag being lowered in the sunset - THE END