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Title: PRINCESS ROYAL OPENING NEW HARBOUR AT MACDUFF

Reference number: 5645

Date: 1921, May

Production company: Green's Topical Productions

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.50 mins

Description: Green's Topical Productions present the Princess Royal opening the new harbour at Macduff.

See also ref. 4432 for longer version.

Credits: [intertitle artwork by Forest Niven]

Shotlist: Vintage car draws up, man in suit and top hat alights, is greeted by men in military uniform (0.25) Green's Topical Productions Arrival and Reception at Banff (0.33) boys' pipe band marches past, followed by troups of boy scouts and girl guides - many carry flags, union jacks etc. (1.45) vintage car pulls up - various smartly dressed men crowd around the car (2.09) Her Royal Highness opens Macduff's new harbour. Boarding the steam drifter "Wheat Stalk" (2.19) General views of crowd of people in harbour area (2.42) As the drifter cuts the ribbon and entered the new basin, the princess named it "Princess Royal Basin" (2.52) the boat "Wheat Stalk" (reg. BF205), manned by royal party and dignitaries dressed in suits and top hats, sets forth from harbour moorings and breaks through the ribbon draped across the harbour entrance. Crowd looks on (3.46) A lot o' weel kent faces in the crowd (3.50)