FESTIVAL IN EDINBURGH
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Title: FESTIVAL IN EDINBURGH
Reference number: 1493
Date: 1955
Director: d. Douglas Clarke
Sponsor: Films of Scotland and Edinburgh Corporation
Production company: Associated British Pathe
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 13.00 mins
Description:
Compilation of events, people and shows which helped to create the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.
Awards: Tenth International Film Festival, 1956 - selected for the Royal Film Performance.
Production file held.
Credits:
Produced by Associated British Pathe Ltd with the co-operation of the Films of Scotland Committee.
Featuring : Dennis Brain playing at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sari Barabas in "Le Comte Ory" presented by the Glyndebourne Opera.
Ann Todd, Paul Rogers in
Shotlist:
PART 1
Credits (1.00); Aerial shots of Forth Railway Bridge and Edinburgh (1.33); Tourists looking out over Edinburgh from the castle (1.59); Lord Provost leading the procession into St. Giles Cathedral during the Festival's opening ceremony (2.33); The one o'clock gun firing from the castle (2.38); A soldier, possibly Black Watch regiment, checks his watch (2.40); General views of Princes Street and the gardens (3.10); Interior shots in the Festival Club (3.27); Exterior of the Cameo Cinema with shots of Joan Bennett and Sir Alexander King (3.37); Various advertising posters (3.46); Exterior of the Empire Theatre, the King's Theatre, opera singer Mattiwilda Dobbs signs an autograph (3.59); Shots of various stars including Claire Bloom and Richard Burton (4.15); Exterior of the Usher Hall (4.21); Dennis Brain playing the french horn (4.36); Tourist looking at poster (4.41); Shots of police directing traffic (4.53); Various posters advertising the Diaghilev Exhibition (5.14); General views of the Diaghilev Exhibition (5.24); Close-ups of a painting in the exhibition (6.54)
PART TWO
No credits. Programme for "Le Comte Ory" (.07); Sari Barabas sings and general views of the Opera Club (.43); Close-up of "Macbeth" programme (.50); Extract from "Macbeth" (1.54); General views of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain practising in the Usher Hall (2.55); Les Petits Chanteurs de Croix de Bois [The Little Singers of the Wooden Cross] practise in a chapel (3.48); General views of Margot Fonteyn in "The Firebird ballet (5.24); General views of the Tattoo (6.36); Exterior shot of Edinburgh Castle (6.54)