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Title: SUMMER FAIR, EDINBURGH LOCAL CONSERVATIVE ASSOCATION 1969

Reference number: 6241

Date: 1969, May 31

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.37 mins

Description: Amateur record of a Conservative Association Summer Fair at Easter Park, Edinburgh on May 31st, 1961. Records all the typical fairground attractions and captures the mood of enjoyment of those attending. Includes footage of former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home.

Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 365 - 368. Diary held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

See also HOMEBUILDERS: Mactaggart and Mickel and the Scottish housebuilding industry ed. Miles Glendinning and Diane Watters, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from Betacam SP 597 - manual control track]

(0.00) no title credits; brief shot AA patrolman mounting sign for 'Easter Park' - group of girls dressed all in blue getting in car and disembarking carrying lots of balloons (0.19) gvs procession of horse drawn carriages through Edinburgh streets, with girls displaying placards and waving at passers by, they cross the bridge leaving Queensferry and arrive at the Summer Fair at Easter Park (1.29) pipe band marching down street jammed with cars and with horse drawn carriages - gvs at the fair, former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home kicks a football to start the festivities, gvs include raffles, fashion show, fortune teller (1.59) introduction by unid. man (Chairman of Conservative Association?), the table he is standing at is draped in Union Jack and Conservative party flags - Sir Alec Douglas Home makes speech to large crowd, gifts are then presented to him, including a painting; brief shot of a 1926 Humber 15/40 tourer motor car belonging to Graeme H. Menzies, Edinburgh, brief shot children crowded on board (3.04) creche and children's playground, they ride on a fairground ride that spins them around on chairs, man hand cracks the ride to function - Summer Fair Draw is made and winners collect prizes (3.36) pipe band marching up central pathway, people gather and watch horses and carriages take people home, girls wave goodbye to camera (4.08) signs and flag are put away at home in the garage - The End (4.37)