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Title: UNIVERSAL NEWS No 2272, SCOTTISH CUP FINAL

Reference number: 1563

Date: 1952, April 24

Production company: Universal News

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.31 mins

Description: Coverage of the Scottish Cup final at Hampden park, Glasgow, between Motherwell and Dundee. Film includes footage of Motherwell's triumphant return to their home town.

Film discovered in can marked "GB News, presented by Gaumont Theatre, Motherwell, May 1952". According to Universal news issue sheet it only appeared as a Scottish 'local' version

Given to donor by Gaumont Cinema, Motherwell, and passed on to the Scottish Film Archive in 1983

Shotlist: Credits (.11); Shots of Hampden stadium, Glasgow, pipers play to spectators (.39); Teams come out onto pitch. General views of match between Dundee and Motherwell. Shots of crowds intercut (2.43); Willie Kilmarnock, team captain, is presented with cup for Motherwell (3.16); Shots of team outside the stadium (3.20); Motherwell team triumphal return to home town. Shots of players is open topped bus surrounded by crowds in streets (4.12); Team pose for photograph with the cup (4.31)

[Final score: Motherwell 4 Dundee 0]