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Title: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS No 116, JEDBURGH HANDBA'

Reference number: 1459

Date: 1935, February 7

Director: [filmed by local Universal cameraman] (Part A)

Sponsor: [attributed to The Cinema, Jedburgh]

Production company: Gaumont British News (Part B)

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.52 mins

Description: Part A contains footage of the Jedburgh Handba' when the 'uppies' and the 'doonies' fight for the ball in the town square. Part B covers the boisterous celebrations of Candlemas.

Preservation of this film supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

Credits: (Part A) [filmed on commission by local Universal news cameraman for the Cinema, Jedburgh]

Shotlist: PART A

Credits (.09); Exciting moments in the annual battle for the ball between the "Uppies" and "Doonies". Town Clerk throws "ba" with streamers attached into mass of people in the town square. General views of uppies and doonies fighting for possession. Shots of the square. Shot of exterior of The Cinema as crowd passes. General views of crowd heaving (1.01)

PART B

Handba' at Jedburgh. Boisterous celebrations of Candlemas. (1.10); Shots of a shopkeeper erecting wooden barricades over the windows. Man attaches padding to lamp post bulb (1.19); Provost throws "ba" to the crowd. General views of crowds in street (1.52)