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Title: NURSERY SCHOOL, at

Reference number: 0919

Date: 1949 - 1950*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.24 mins

Description: Activities at Moray House nursery school, Edinburgh, putting an emphasis on hygiene and play.

See also ref. 0918

Shotlist: No credits. Children in nursery school wash their hands and brush their hair. They hang up their individual towels and brushes on numbered hooks (1.30); Shots of children playing in garden making sand pies, climbing and playing on a chute; shot of small boy using a tissue dispenser on the wall, blowing his nose and putting the used tissue into a wire basket (2.53); Shots of children seated at tables with various toys and games; girl painting at an easel (3.53); Building blocks. The children go back indoors (4.12); They come out again to set at the lunch tables; pan over curious crowds watching filming, some boys have climbed the railings (5.22); Shots of the children going to their cots (5.32); Children play with hoops, skipping ropes, books and dance etc. in the courtyard (6.54)