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Title: EDINBURGH TATTOO, the

Reference number: 2206

Date: 1958

Sponsor: Films of Scotland in collaboration with the Film Unit of the US Marines

Production company: Campbell Harper Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.00 mins

Description: The first colour film of the Edinburgh Tattoo.

Paper archive file.

Credits: ed. Peter Musgrove
comm. Robert Dunnett
ass. p. Capt R H Westmorland

Shotlist: Credits (.08) evening shot of Edinburgh Castle tilts to sky as fireworks explode (.19) credits (.27) tilt shot from sky to evening shot of Edinburgh Castle (.34) drummers of US Marine Corps; the trumpets of the Black Watch (1.02) audience (1.05) massed pipes and drums perform (3.58) audience (4.01) the Royal Horse Guards perform various routines (6.54) Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr J.S. McLay, takes the salute (6.58) the Royal Horse Guards leave the arena (7.33) Brigadier Alistair MacLean announces changing of the guard (7.39) troops of the Lifeguards led in by their own band (8.24) ceremony of the changing of the guards (1.08) part of Edinburgh Castle lit by floodlights (11.12) US Marines perform marching and drill routines (13.35) governor of Edinburgh Castle takes the salute (13.38) the trooping of US Marine corps battle colours (14.30) audience (14.34) marching pipe band is followed on by dozens of army Highland dancers; the latter dance a Strathspey and Eightsome reel (18.01) audience (18.08) all Tattoo participants gather in the arena, playing music and marching as they take their places; soldiers give salute (21.07) governor of Edinburgh Castle from his box, takes the salute (21.14) Scots Guards perform rifle drill (21.33) l/s three trumpeters on ramparts of castle (21.54) c/u three trumpeters in uniforms of different regiments (22.05) l/s military bank being conducted (22.09) St. Andrews flag in flagpole being lowered (22.28) l/s lone piper on rampart (22.44) pan floodlit Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street (23.05) l/s lone piper on ramparts of Castle (23.16) gvs all participants gathered in the arena; some beginning to march off (23.29); marching pipe band alone is seen leaving arena; shot tilts up to floodlights at the end (24.12) ecs (24.23)

n.b.
the following bands took part:-
Royal Scots Greys, 1st Battalion Black Watch, 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Brigade of Gurkhas, Depot The Royal Scots and Lowland Brigade, The Life Guards and Royal Horse GUards, The Junior Leader's Regt, Royal Artillery, 1st and 2nd Battalions Scots Guards andUnited States Marine Corps, Parris Island, South Carolina