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Title: WATER DIVINING

Reference number: 5856

Date: 1952

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.11 mins

Description: Film depicts three men in an Edinburgh garden, a policeman, a Justice of the Peace and an elderly man. They test the elderly man, who divines for coins, quite successfully.

Shotlist: exts of blindfolded elderly man holding water divining sticks, which flip in his hands occasionally; a policeman places a brick on the ground where and when this happens (1.35) overexposed and patchy (1.40) the men sit on a bench and examine the (witch-hazel?) water divining stick (2.28) overexposed (3.09) Two men leave, policeman place coins into the lawn (3.51) Two men return, (4.40) overexposed (4.59) gvs of divination process as the elderly man attempts to find coins (6.24) two judges sit at a table and show a note pad stating This is to Certify that the Demonstrations You Have Just Witnessed Were taken place in Our Presence at Davidson House Edinburgh on 21/5/52, and are in Every Way Genuine which both men then sign (7.11)