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Title: GREY METROPOLIS, the

Reference number: 2853

Date: 1952

Director: [filmed by J. T. Ritchie, N. McIsaac, R.Townsend]

Production company: [ Norton Park Group]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.00 mins

Description: The film shows the city through the thoughts and songs of R.L. Stevenson.

Winner of the Lizars Cup, Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1953.
Made by teachers at Norton Park School, Edinburgh,

Credits: Norton Park Production No. 3.
[cam. J. Lennie]
The thoughts of R.L.S. are spoken by Ian Gilmour
"Queen's Maries" and the "Willow Song" sung by Mary Sked and the "Gay Japanee" sung by Douglas McMahon.

Shotlist: A commentary of Edinburgh by R.L. Stevenson. gvs aspects of the city - streets, public buildings, l/s to old town, smoky cityscape, people (15 mins)


Donor's description:
"A remembrance of his Edinburgh days - and nights - by Robert Louis Stevenson. The camera pictures, or suggests, the rich and varied thoughts of R.L.S. With his sprightly character we see the city's character the better through her streets and lamps, kirk-bells and kirkyairds, pubs and closes, gardens and gutters, statues and stones. The version of How Many Miles to Babylon is chanted like it was in the 1870s."