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Title: EDINBURGH'S CORONATION YEAR PICTORIAL 1937

Reference number: 6467

Date: 1937

Director: filmed by Waverley Amateur Cine Club

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.10 mins

Description: Edinburgh's Coronation Year Pictorial 1937. Views of decorations and events celebrating the coronation and royal visit.

Shotlist: Title. (0.16) close shot man reading brochure. (0.19) ls castle from Princes street, gvs floral decorations, flags and banners; shots of buildings draped in colours (1.01) brief shot "crown" float. (1.09) ms children are presented with small tin boxes; c/u children prising the lids open and eating (sweets?) (1.26) Brief view docks; boats decorated with bunting. (1.35) Civic Dignitaries Attend Service at St.Giles. (1.42) Councillors and magistrates in ceremonial dress, processing into St. Giles Cathedral. (2.29) Coronation Sports at Meadowbank. (2.32) brief shots of athletes on track and a tug o' war (2.52) ls synchronised women's gymnastics routine (3.03) brief shot football match with outsized "Daily Mail" ball; brief shot men marching onto field, "bunny-hopping" a gym horse (3.20) ms and c/u bonfire. [night] (3.41) Their Majesties Visit. Morning of 5th July. (2.52) Nine bi-planes fly overhead in formation. (4.01) Elevated view pipe bands, soldiers and sailors marching past crowds on Princes Street. (5.41) Wet Review Veterans take up their position. (5.47) Elevated view veterans filing into seating outside the National Museum. Brief shot of carriage pulled by four white horses (6.16) brief exts. of LMS Princes Street station sign; ints. large groups of men in ceremonial dress; Royal train arrives. Royal party leave station in carriages (6.55) elevated shot royal carriage passing by (7.02) Royal Review at Kings Park. (7.07) elevated shot Military brass band and pipe band marching past, pan over large assembled crowd. (7.30) Elevated views Royal Company of Archers; ls flag (7.44) Royal family, followed by a number of others approach park (8.19) inspection of Royal Company of Archers; Royal party are seated under covered platform (8.20) March past. (8.52) brief shot children watching from vantage point on cast iron gates; Royal car passes through crowd lined streets, people waving; c/u children waving flags; closer shots of car passing [slightly oof] (9.18) Fireworks at night; fireworks light a GR crown design and briefly, a portrait of the Royal family (9.41) Departure of Royal train. (9.58) C/u flag, 'Long May He Reign'; medallions depicting five dominions over union flag; 'God Save the King'. (10.08) The End. (10.10)