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Title: ROME 1955 OCT AND CANNES SEP/OCT 1956

Reference number: 10044

Date: 1955 / 1956

Director: filmed by Robert Sibbald

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.38 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a travel agent's visits to Rome, Lake Geneva, Paris and Cannes.

Film maker was the Edinburgh based travel agent Robert Sibbald. Sibbald Travel Agents operated for 50 years from 1947. The films show the film maker's travels abroad researching holiday destinations and cruises. The film maker's grandson believes Sibbald took most of the films in order to give talks to various bodies to get business for the travel agency. Sibbald did a lot of work in ski resorts in Europe and he organised the travel for the Scottish curling teams both for holidays and competitions.

Shotlist: [no title] - gvs front of Gatwick Airport, car park and main building, control tower (0.56) int shots of check-in desks and main hall - passengers boarding a BEA aircraft, pan across terminal building (1.39) shots on Rome street, tourists being directed on to CIT tour coaches - pan across city of Rome from viewpoint - gvs tour party at viewpoint, one with cine camera, and inside courtyard of San Paulo fuori le Mura, with c/u different styles of column (2.45) gvs tour party at Palazzo Senatorio - gvs Roman forum, arches of Temple of Saturn - gvs Pantheon and fountain, busy side street - gvs St. Peter's Square and tour party, Swiss Guards on duty, tourists in front of St. Peter's Basilica, entering Catacombe di San Callisto (4.43) gvs tour party at Trevi Fountain, throwing coins into water - l/s St. Peter's across Tiber, pan to Palazzo di Giustizia - shot of bridge over Tiber - view up Via della Conciliazione to St. Peter's - gvs St. Peter's Square with dais in front for papal audience, crowds arriving for audience - gvs basilica and square, crowds, young men relaxing (6.37) older woman being helped down gangway from Swissair aircraft by stewardess - gvs woman on balcony, pan across lake and waterfront - women feeding swans - frontage of Hotel Beau Rivage, Nyon, Lake Geneva (7.48) street scene in Paris looking towards Place de l'Opéra, women boarding excursion coach - gvs tour party in front of Palace of Versailles, statue, ornamental gardens, fountain and pond - gvs people outside café - parade of veterans? in street, all holding French flags - group sitting at table outside restaurant - gv side street behind Sacré Coeur - gv Restaurant Mairie du Vieux Montmartre (9.58) gvs seafront at Cannes, people sunbathing, naval vessels offshore including aircraft carrier, harbour with yachts, pan along beach and bay - line of cars on promenade, woman walks past - pan across beach and Hôtel Martinez (11.38)