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Title: GORDONSTOUN SCHOOL GARDEN FETE

Reference number: 0808

Date: 1949

Director: [filmed by James S. Nairn for the Playhouse, Inverness]

Sponsor: [ Playhouse Cinema, Inverness]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10 mins

Description: Footage of Gordonstoun School garden fete. An obstacle race and various stalls are enjoyed by the boys. HRH Duke of Edinburgh attends the fete.

Titles filmed uncut.

Credits: CAC presentation [Caledonian Associated Cinemas]

Shotlist: No credits. Shots of people milling around garden fete stalls, including "Knock the Goalie Down", "Tip the Topper" and "Hoop-la" (1.55); - Blank - (2.05); CAC presents (2.07); - Blank - (2.10); Tain Carnival and Queen (2.16); - Blank - (2.17); The End (2.24); Blank - (2.26); Gordonstoun School garden fete opened by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh Saturday 23 July 1949 (2.36); - Blank - (2.37); CAC presents (2.52); Shots of programme for Tain's Karnival Kapers (3.12); Group of youngsters look at Garden Fete souvenir programme (3.38); The Duke of Edinburgh arrives and is greeted by assembled officials (3.56); [This sequence badly out of focus] (4.38); General shots of fete and participants (5.08); General shots around the fete (6.36); Unidentified building, possibly Gordonstoun School (6.50); Shots of various fete stalls including "Wheel of Fortune", an auction and an obstacle race (8.01); Shots of the Duke on a "walk-about" (8.14); Start of race for boys (8.21); [This sequence out of focus] (9.56); The Duke meets some of the people in the crowd (10.25)