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Title: ROME

Reference number: 5870

Date: 1950c

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.51 mins

Description: Holiday film showing some of the famous sights in Rome: the Coliseum, the Arch of Constantine, the Roman Forum and the Trevi Fountain.

Shotlist: Children play on a street. Gvs of the Coliseum from inside and outside. Gvs Arch of Constantine and then the Roman forum. Gvs of train station. Gvs of Rome. (2.00) Children play in a square. Gvs of people waiting for a tram. Binmen empty bins beside a newspaper stand. Gvs of the Spanish Steps. Gvs from a high viewpoint across the city. (3.56) Gvs hotel guests chatting and relaxing in the sun. (4.53) Gvs of the Roman countryside. Artist paints a fountain. (5.22) Woman looks at a noticeboard. St Andrew's Church of Scotland Sunday Service 11am Regiment march in square. Gvs of tourists at Trevi fountain. (6.33) Roadsign: Castel Gandolfo. Gvs of people approaching the castle and women in traditional dress, possibly part of a parade? (7.05) A "Pope" gives a sermon from one of the castle windows. Gvs of crowd. (7.51)