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Title: SUMMER FAIR, EDINBURGH LOCAL CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION, MURRAYFIELD HOUSE 1975

Reference number: 6252

Date: 1975, June 14

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.00mins

Description: Amateur record of a Conservative Association Summer Fair at Murrayfield House, Edinburgh on June 14th, 1975. Records all the typical fairground attractions, including a teddy bears picnic. Includes footage of Alick Buchanan Smith M.P.

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 510. Diary notes say 'Beaulieu Motor Museum; Ross Mickel, Summer Fair 1975' but upon viewing the only footage is of the Summer Fair, as well as brief unidentified aerial shots at start. See ref. 6253 for Beaulieu Motor Museum and Ross Mickel footage.

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] Britannia Airways Boeing 737 G-AWSY taxiing on runway; gvs aerial shots unidentified mountains, lake - blank - (0.48) various signs and posters for the Conservative Association Summer Fair at Murrayfield House, Edinburgh (1.01) children line up with their toys to participate in the Teddy Bears Picnic (1.11) led by a man playing bagpipes, various members of the Conservative Association (including Marjorie, wife of Douglas Mickel, James Douglas-Hamilton and Alick Buchanan-Smith M.P.) make their way to a marquee (1.38) ints marquee where Douglas-Hamilton addresses crowd (1.47) gvs around the fair, including balloons being arranged, queues lining up outside tent for 'Palmistry' by 'Madame Katrina', ice creams are enjoyed and prizes are awarded for the Teddy Bears Picnic (3.00)