CHARITY WEEK PROCESSION
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The procession of student floats makes its way through the streets of Edinburgh for Charity Week 1967. (clip)
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Title: CHARITY WEEK PROCESSION
Reference number: 6880
Date: 1967, April 29
Director: [filmed by Dr. M Latyszewski]
Sound: silent
Original format: std. 8mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.56 mins
Description: Edinburgh Student Charities Week Procession, 1967. Includes details of floats and fancy dress, including the "Torrey Canyon", representing the oil tanker that caused a major environmental disaster.
Shotlist: c/u of two students wearing mice masks and costumes (0.05) views of students assembling in George Square in fancy dress outside modern university buildings; (0.31) shot of "Sorrey Canyon" [sic] float; c/u students on board with oil smeared faces, [Torrey Canyon was an oil tanker that caused a major environmental disaster when it capsized] (0.39) students running along in "Ancient Greek" fancy dress; a float on a N.C.B. lorry, (1.01) shots of crowds lining streets; students having a water fight; "Hawaiian" float (1.30) gvs floats parading; brass band; Puppet on a String float; Expo 67; c/u students in fancy dress collecting donations from the street gvs procession in streets including "Pakistan" float; Alice in Wonderland; Photosoc [dressed as mice]; Napier Technical College float (3.54) sign "Lolli Lido" [George Square?] (3.56)