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Title: EDINBURGH

Reference number: 0182

Date: 1961c

Director: d. Henry Cooper

Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland

Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.30 mins

Description: Everyday life in Edinburgh, with a look at its historical heritage and featuring plenty of street scenes.

Some scenes possibly filmed in 1939 during International Scout moot in July 1939, when rally was held in Edinburgh.

Credits: p. Alan Harper
ph. Ian Kennedy and Brian Easton
sc. D.M. Elliot
comm. s. Ian Gilmour
music arranged and composed Eric Roberts
educational adviser James Hossack

Shotlist: Reel 1
credits (0.10) gvs city of Edinburgh and its major points of interest (1.05) Arthur's Seat (1.26) historical development of the settlement illustrated by contemporary prints and drawings (1.50) New Town with shot of fish wives and loaded creel delivering fish (2.39) the modern city (2.51) Nor' loch area (3.19) monuments and civic buildings (4.18) the city's industrial life with shots of breweries, printing, producing wire cloth, engineering, shipbuilding, glass blowing, electronics, tyre making and food manufacture (7.09) the University and its buildings, schools and education with shots of Heriot's, Donaldson's, Fettes and Daniel Stewart's (9.03) National Gallery (9.35)

Reel 2
Edinburgh viewed as a tourist centre, particularly Princes Street Gardens (2.14) Edinburgh Castle (4.29) Royal Mile and Holyroodhouse (7.23) Duddingston, Water of Leith (8.15) Leith docks and Granton and Newhaven (9.09)

Reel 3
Portobello and the beach and amusements (0.48) Cramond (1.08) Museum of Childhood (1.41) Edinburgh Zoo (2.16) International Rugby [Scotland?] v. Wales at Murrayfield (3.49) the City and its ceremony. Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh at Quatercentenary of John Knox, Royal Company of Archers, Order of the Thistle, Queen opens Ingliston showground (6.05) Festival - the city transformed. gvs Epstein Exhibition and Tattoo (7.49) brief recap of sequences and credits (8.55)