PROCLAMATION OF KING EDWARD VIII
Full length video
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Title: PROCLAMATION OF KING EDWARD VIII
Reference number: 2685
Date: 1936*
Director: [filmed by William Watt]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.47 mins
Description:
Provost Spence of Dufftown reads the proclamation to onlooking crowds.
Other films in this collection at 2684, 2683, 2589, 2588
Shotlist:
[Shotlisted at different speed - actual timing is 2.47 mins @ 18 fps]
No title. Dufftown schoolchildren parade into square (0.48) ls spectators assemble at the bottom of the clock tower. c/u individuals [plaque and white phone box at base of tower are visible] (1.35) ls Provost Spence reads proclamation from newspaper; closer shot of Provost, he leads the crowd in three cheers (2.42) ls two women listening from a distance (2.47) Crowd disperses (3.02)
(Shotlisted with information from local sources).