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Title: SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME IN CRIEFF

Reference number: 10033

Date: 1963

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.03 mins

Description: Amateur footage of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home at a Highland games, relaxing at a country house and meeting the public and speaking in Crieff.

This may be in November 1963, shortly after Sir Alec Douglas-Home became Prime Minister.

Shotlist: Display by Fiji Military Forces Band watched by spectators, then display by Fijian dancers in traditional dress and weapons. Sir Alec Douglas-Home mingles with Fijians for photographs. Douglas-Home on a walkabout in streets of Crieff, wearing blue rosette, talking to members of public, crowd gathered around. Douglas-Home makes speech in James Square, police direct traffic through crowds. GVs people in crowd. Group of people in garden of large house, joined by Elizabeth Douglas-Home. Alec Douglas-Home walks around garden and poses for camera, signs an autograph book for a young girl. The Douglas-Homes pose with their son David. GVs crowds gathered on Crieff High Street, many wearing poppies. Close-ups of many individuals. Alec Douglas-Home speaks to crowd, his son David nearby.