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Title: MEARNSKIRK'S PETER PAN

Reference number: 4423

Date: 1949, July 9

Director: d. R.A. Riddell Black

Sponsor: 'Alf' Ellsworth

Production company: Elder Film Productions

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.36 mins

Description: The unveiling of a statue of Peter Pan and a tour of the Mearnskirk hospital for children in Glasgow.

Ellsworth, confectioner in Glasgow, was a benefactor of the hospital financially and gifted the statue of Peter Pan. Ellsworth originally commissioned and financed the film.

Credits: ph. W Smeaton-Tussell

Shotlist: Title and [animated] credits (0.34) Visitors disembarking bus and entering grounds of Mearnskirk hospital for children, Glasgow. Every Sunday many visitors arrive at Mearnskirk but today was s special occasion. gv's arrivals. Inside grounds Nurses greet our 'visitor'. (1.55) A memorial to Dr John A Wilson OEE was being unveiled. Gv's nurses, medical staff, guests and spectators. Kirkintilloch Junior Choir entertain. Mr Arthur Bromfield unveiled the memorial. gv's revealing a statue of Peter Pan. (4.20) Many kind people had contributed toys for the children. A delivery van for Ellsworth Confectioners of Glasgow delivering toys. (4.54) Toddlers in handsome toy racing cars. (5.36) gv's child patients in the hospital, in the therapy pool, in beds wheeled out onto terraces and on wards. (9.44) After the visitors had gone those of us off duty relaxed in the nurses home. gv's same. (10/11) gv's patients and statue. ecs (10.36)