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Title: SUMMER CAMP 1970 LOCH FYNE

Reference number: 9458

Date: 1970

Director: filmed by John T. K. Barr

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 30.29 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a scout camp on the Ardmarnoch Estate on the Cowal peninsula.

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, 9457, 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 leader driving a hired van to the camp at Ardmarnoch. The boys unpack the van and pitch the tents. The boys are shown making a gate, cooking on a makeshift hob and making a fence. The boys with an inflatable dinghy and fishing. Waking up in their tents. One boy returning from collecting water, stopping at the camp post box. The boys line up in their camp and are inspected by their leaders. Kitchen equipment and sleeping quarters are checked. Shots of the camp tuck shop. The boys make a climbing frame and ride on the back of a tractor. The boys with canoes and climbing the frame they made. GVs landscape of Loch Fyne. Writing a camp newspaper the ‘Daily Badger’. The campfire and camp kitchen being used. Boys peel and cook potatoes. Pony trekking. More shots of the scouts on their climbing frames before it is pulled down. The boys go swimming with inflatable dinghies in the loch.