UP HELLY AA FESTIVAL 1949
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Title: UP HELLY AA FESTIVAL 1949
Reference number: 1309
Date: 1949
Sound: silent
Original format: 9.5mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6.00 minsc
Description:
The Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, with shots by night of the procession and ceremonial burning of the galley.
Preservation of this film supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Shotlist: Credits (.08); Glimpses of Norse Galley. General views of the festival in Lerwick. Shots of reproduction of a Viking galley (.11); BBC personnel arranging for world wide broadcast of festival - Proclamation. Shots of same (.18); Jarl and Vikings torchlight procession. Shots by night of the procession (2.41); Burning. The galley is burned (3.59); Collection funds for charity day following Festival by Guizers. Participants collect for charity in the town streets and shots of decorated floats procession (5.59); The End (6.01).