Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 10476 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
SCOTLAND | 1935 | 1935-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 14 mins 35 secs Credits: Individuals: Tom Brown (Senior) Genre: Home Movie Subject: ARCHITECTURE COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE TRAVEL |
Summary This black and white amateur travelogue was filmed by dentist Tom Brown (Senior.) It records a trip to Scotland with his wife, Mabel Brown, and family friends Herbert and Agnes Punch. |
Description
This black and white amateur travelogue was filmed by dentist Tom Brown (Senior.) It records a trip to Scotland with his wife, Mabel Brown, and family friends Herbert and Agnes Punch.
Title: Scotland
Title: Ayr. Burns Memorial
Mabel Brown stands at a sundial in the Burns Memorial gardens.
Title: Ayr. Brig O’ Doon
A group of people walk across a bridge through the Burns Memorial landscaped gardens. Mabel stands in the garden with a view of the Burns monument tower in the background. She...
This black and white amateur travelogue was filmed by dentist Tom Brown (Senior.) It records a trip to Scotland with his wife, Mabel Brown, and family friends Herbert and Agnes Punch.
Title: Scotland
Title: Ayr. Burns Memorial
Mabel Brown stands at a sundial in the Burns Memorial gardens.
Title: Ayr. Brig O’ Doon
A group of people walk across a bridge through the Burns Memorial landscaped gardens. Mabel stands in the garden with a view of the Burns monument tower in the background. She walks towards a life size sandstone statue of a woman seated. There are general views of various James Thom sculptures of Burns characters in the garden.
The film then cuts to a view over a fast flowing River Doon with a high arched stone bridge in the background, taken from the new bridge. Shot of a row of deckchairs and a café shack. Pan up to show the Burns Monument. Mabel walks past the thatched Burns Cottage, and then there is a sign for the cottage.
Title: Glasgow Cathedral
General view of Glasgow Cathedral from the south-west and groups of people are walking in the area around the cathedral. Mabel Brown walks across the street. A panoramic view of Glasgow can be seen in the background.
Title: Pass of Glencoe
Mabel, Agnes and Herbert Punch, get out of their car on the Glencoe Road and stroll arm-in-arm along the road in Glencoe Pass. Then there is a sign for North Ballachulish, with Loch Leven in the background. Cars and passengers use the vehicle ferry at Loch Leven. The ferry heads off across the loch. There are general views of the lake. There is a sign for Invermoriston. Many shots of the rocky River Moriston follow. A sign reads 'Urquhart Castle' and general views of the ruins of the castle on Loch Ness follow.
Title: Inverness
There are general views of Inverness castle.
Title: Inverness. From Top of Castle.
Panoramic view of Inverness from Inverness Castle. A man in a bowler hat, Herbert Punch, stands next to his wife, Agnes Punch. A group of people are standing on the castle parapets.
General view of the River Ness.
Title: Culloden
Cclose-up of the inscribed memorial stone for the Battle of Culloden. A small group of people walk around the memorial cairn. There are brief sequential shots of the Highland clan memorial headstones at the Battle of Culloden site. Shot of a hole in the ground, possibly a grave. An old couple are sitting on one of the clan headstones.
Title: Elgin Cathedral
General views of the ruins of Elgin Cathedral in Moray as a man on bicycle rides past quickly along the road. A man looks at an old one storey thatched cottage.
Title: Aberdeen. Wallace Memorial.
General views of the Wallace Monument, which stands on Abbey Craig hilltop. Close-up of the William Wallace statue.
Title: Aberdeen Town Hall
View looking towards Aberdeen Town and County Hall.
General view of cars parked somewhere in Aberdeen. The Punches walk past the camera. General views of a river (either the River Don or the River Dee) and then Aberdeen castle.
The next sequence shows a fast flowing river, pan across to an old stone wall, which may be in the Old Town area of Aberdeen. There are more shots of the river and a view of village houses across the river. A building with towers stands across a small loch. Next, cars, a motorbike, and passengers queue to get onto the ferry beside the Forth Bridge (or Forth Rail bridge), with the cantilevered bridge in view across the Firth of Forth.
Title: The Zoo. Edinburgh.
The film closes with a long sequence at the Edinburgh zoo, which shows a series of animal enclosures and rides as follows: bears, llamas, lions, a cart pulled by an emu, two young boys on a camel ride, elephants, penguins, seals, ducks, pelicans, lion and deer.
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