EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Full length video
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Title: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Reference number: 3784
Date: 1933c
Director: [filmed by Clifford Strain]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.51 mins
Description:
Soak up the sights of Edinburgh, Scotland’s great and historic Capital City.
Films shot by Clifford Strain, photographer, cinematographer in Glasgow, and later film director until 1937. Involved in the first amateur Open competition, later Scottish Amateur Film Festival, in Glasgow. See autobiographical notes.
Digitisation funded by British Film Institute 'Unlocking Film Heritage', awarding funds from the National Lottery.
Credits: An SCD Production
Shotlist: gvs ruined abbey. (0.08) title. Pan across Edinburgh skyline from north. Gv's Princes St and Gardens, ext Picture House (1.08) Castle and Scottish National War Memorial (2.13) Princes Street as seen from the Castle. (2.44) High St. John Knox's house. (3.04) Entrance to Holyroodhouse Royal Residence. gv's and shots of House from Arthur's Seat (3.34) Calton Hill, North Bridge (3.59) The Scottish American Memorial (1914) in Princes Street Gardens. (4.11) The Forth Bridge. Ferry crossing under rail bridge, gvs bridge. ecs (4.51)