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Title: GLASGOW POLICE TATTOO AT KELVIN HALL

Reference number: 3708

Date: c.1960's

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 27.25 mins

Description: This is possibly the Glasgow Police Tattoo. However this has not been verified. The images concern various displays in the Kelvin Hall.

Shotlist: Gv's of an empty football, and rugby pitch. Views of the near by buildings and trees. (3.27) Blank space. (3.46) Policemen marching in formation. (4.43) Male choir. (5.05) Blank space. (5.12) Mounted police trotting in formation to two pipers. (5.36) Two men on a stage building up the audience for the next performance. (5.53) Karate display, four men battle, then a young woman demonstrates how easy it is to throw someone larger than you. (6.51) Gv's of the spectators leaving their seats, and of the auditorium. (7.29) Blank space. (7.47) Focus on a man and a little girl returning to their seats. They look up and smile at the camera, friends or relatives to the cameraman. Pan of the audience seated for the next half. (9.14) Police dog display. Dogs climbing up and down ladders, jumping through a hoop of fire, and behaviour. (11.22) Blank space. (11.44) Gymnastics display. (12.13) Master of Ceremonies introducing examples of the changes in Police uniform. (?). (13.01). Empty stage until Pipe band march on and play in formation.(14.07) Four sword dancers, shaky camera, sword dancers march off stage, and Pipe band finish playing. (15.40) Blank space. (15.44) View taken from the bow of a ships bridge. C/u on the lifebelt of the HMS Vanguard. Gv's of the side of the ship with a man in the wheel house. Then the Svaneholm is filmed. The docks were filmed at night. (19.27) Blank space. (19.44) Two mounted policemen at Kelvin Hall with a group of people gathered around each horse. (19.51). Mounted policemen following some pipers into the hall. (21.04) Karate display with the master of ceremonies joining in. (23.09). Crowd leaving the auditorium. (23.27) Blank space. (23.46) Shaky shot. Master of ceremonies on stage. (24.12) Display of all the police involved, on foot, horseback, dog handlers, motorcycle. (25.01) Male choir. (25.22) Trio of male singers playing guitars. (25.50) Gymnastics display team marching across the floor. Four men bowing to the audience in track suits (?) by a police van. (26.22) Pipe band. (27.08) Four policewomen on stage. (27.25)