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Title: THREE DAYS IN ROME

Reference number: 4108

Date: 1964*

Sponsor: Scottish Catholic Film Institute

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.16 mins

Description: The film documents a trip to Rome made by a group of Roman Catholic clergymen, showing general sights around Rome itself by day and night and a ceremony at which the Pope was in attendance.

Winner of Lizars Salver - for the best film on Scotland, in the Scottish Amateur Film Festival of 1966.

Credits: p. Lawrence Russell

Shotlist: credits (1.23) group of priests gather around for photographs (1.59) gvs priests boarding aeroplane, views over landscape, lakes and towns below (2.38) gvs sightseeing coach tour around Rome (4.39) busy city scenes by night, with neon signs, shops and traffic (5.53) c/u religious figures engraved on stained glass (7.17) sunset through the trees (7.26) bustling St. Mark's Square with thousands of people, some in religious dress, listening to Pope's address from balcony window (8.50) quieter shots of architecture, Colliseum (?), fountains and various stately buildings, sculptures etc (11.47) c/u religious figures engraved on stained glass (12.39) sunset through the trees (12.49) exts building and amenities such as tennis courts, probably priest seminary (?) ints corridors (13.39) group of priests of all ages gather around for photographs, includes a shot of an older priest taking photographs with a hand held camera (14.38) shot of nuns and older priests, including cardinal (15.07) gvs exterior of chapel and ints religious ceremony. Congregation is all male and seems to comprise priests only, shot of Pope taking sacraments (20.37) shot as Pope leaves chapel by car, surrounded by entourage and motorbike escort (20.52) gvs buildings and fountains (21.34) The End (21.39)