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Title: SCOTLAND v ENGLAND, HAMPDEN '48 / THE ROAD TO HAMPDEN

Reference number: 5657

Date: 1947*/1952c

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.34 mins

Description: Scotland v England British International Championship football matches at Hampden in 1948 and in 1952.

Scrap of paper attached to reel says 'Football 1948 & 1952'. Scottish Match Archive Website at http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/match_details.cfm?matchid=57814 [last accessed 3/4/2008] confirms the score in 1948 was 0-2 to England, location and attendance was 135,376. For 1952, the score was 1-2 to England (Reilly scored for Scotland) and attendance 134,504 http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/match_details.cfm?matchid=57721 [last accessed 3/4/2008].

Shotlist: [B&W] Title (0.09) brief shot Union Jack, male crowds bustling around Hampden Park, smiling at camera, police on horseback and police with 'bobby' style helmets (0.24) int Hampden, boy's gymnastics display entertaining crowd, Highland pipe band, children form pyramids (0.38) m/s wheelchairs at front of crowd; c/u expensive seats, man with military beret in centre of picture - General Montgomery (1.15) Teams take the field, m/s Montgomery meeting team members and shaking hands, photographers and cameramen present (1.13) referee [David Maxwell] in striped jacket tosses the coin, captains shake hands and teams change ends (1.23) gvs football match in play (2.40) jump to second half, team playing other direction [several instances of robust play] (4.20) [spacer] (4.23) [Col] Scottish Daily Record presents the Road to Hampden. Largs Scottish Team's Training Headquarters (4.31) team in hotel looking out onto coastal scenery (4.38) players training (4.55) Forbes shows the youngsters how - or does he!! (4.58) Forbes playing football with schoolchildren, dribbling around them (5.17) Skipper Young discusses tactic (5.20) players discussing tactics, examining ball (5.36) players show passing skills (5.44) Returning from 'Black Market' (5.46) Smartly dressed players walking along street carrying parcels wrapped with brown paper and string (5.53) gvs players on the putting green (6.24) Zero Hour. Billy Wright (England) and George Young (Scotland) lead their teams onto the field for presentation to Secretary of State for Scotland (6.35) Teams coming onto Hampden pitch, brief view crowd waving. (6.56) Highlights of football. [from England goal, Scotland attacking] (8.32) England attacking same end - second half, including brief pause for an injury and penalty (10.03) THE END (10.05) [spacer] (10.08) Scotland v England 1952 (10.11) players in training on football pitch (not Hampden and no spectators), running towards camera, practising shots (11.08) athletics event in Hampden with vast crowd; Raining, four men running around track in relay event (11.34)