OPENING OF NEW BATHS, ABERDEEN
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Title: OPENING OF NEW BATHS, ABERDEEN
Reference number: 0529D
Date: 1940
Director: [filmed by Ernest Bromberg for Newscine, Aberdeen]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2 mins
Description:
The opening ceremony of the new Bon-Accord swimming baths in Aberdeen, with shots of the pool, spectators and swimmers.
800 people attended the opening ceremony which was presided over by Councillor James Hay, Convenor of the Links and Parks Department.
Shotlist: No credits. Shots of women in doorway of swimming pool building (.18); Various shots inside the baths, of the pool, spectators, swimmers, Lord Provost Mitchell giving a speech and of the divers (1.54)