SCENES FROM AROUND EDINBURGH
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Title: SCENES FROM AROUND EDINBURGH
Reference number: 10013
Date: 1933c
Director: filmed by George Stewart
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 16.55 mins
Description:
Amateur views of Edinburgh, including a wedding party at St. Giles Cathedral, a visit by Mary, Princess Royal, and a military march-past at Holyrood Park.
Mary, Princes Royal, was Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots regiment, and was possibly in Edinburgh for regimental centenary celebrations.
Shotlist:
Pipe band in procession at Holyrood Park. GVs Princes Street and gardens. Royal Scottish Academy building. Women in car on Princes Street. Crowds gathered round St. Giles Cathedral, bride and groom and wedding party come out and get into waiting cars. GVs Royal Mile, Tolbooth, Palace of Holyroodhouse, guards on sentry duty. Edinburgh Zoo, various animals in enclosures. High shots of Edinburgh. GVs visit to Edinburgh Castle by Princess Mary - crowds waiting, Princess leaves building and departs in car. Military march-past of veterans on castle esplanade and in Holyrood Park.