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Title: PRINCESS MARY PRESENTS NEW COLOURS TO ROYAL SCOTS

Reference number: 0116

Date: 1926, August 4

Director: [filmed by James Hart]

Sponsor: [ Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.42 mins

Description: Princess Mary, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Scots, presents the new Colours to the 1st Battalion at Maryhill barracks, Glasgow. 4th August, 1926. [Incomplete]

Attributed to James Hart, as one of his series of local topicals ‘Grosvenor Topical News’.

Shotlist: Credits (0.05) Princess Mary, Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment; she passes a rank of Girl Guides; inspects troops and meets veterans; (2.40) Princess speaks to veterans wearing an old-fashioned uniform, with tricorn hats (3.53) march past; shot of crowds watching behind rope; Princess Mary presents the new colours to the 1st Battn. Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment); (5.20) pan over seated group of families and veterans (5.34) three cheers; parade of new colours (6.07) after ceremony, shots of the Princess Mary accompanied by officers outside the barracks. Shots of the crowd (6.42) [Incomplete]