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Title: GENERAL VIEWS OF EDINBURGH

Reference number: 6281

Date: 1954*

Sound: silent

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.06 mins

Description: General views of Edinburgh, trams, processions and people. TV insert in middle featuring Royal family and then Churchill. [Mostly b&w, with a short section of colour footage].

Shotlist: [b&w] View from crowd of men in uniform with bows and arrows. Pan crowd, pan large field, sports day (0.30) [overexposed] trams and traffic along Princes street (1.03) people boarding tram in middle of road (1.08) [better exposure] trams and traffic along Princes street, Scott monument in b/ground (1.24) blank (1.29) [col] mother, grandmother and child on beach building sandcastle, decorating it with shells. Sand dunes in b/ground (2.05) women collecting shells, gvs beach. Child runs into sea, gvs beach (2.45) gvs family on beach (2.51) [b&w] [overexposed] ext. Holyrood Palace entrance, people walking (3.20) pan surrounding countryside (3.38) 2 women walking by fence (4.08) blank (4.16) [insert tv] footage of Queen Mother, Queen and children in carriage. Procession of carriage. Speech by gentlemen (5.24) Churchill [end of tv insert](5.42) procession (5.50) elevated view Edinburgh, elevated view (6.04) children feeding ducks at pond (6.29) ext 'The Shakespeare' bar, sign 'Hail Caledonia' ext. large church (6.43) pan crowd lined street, pipe band marches (7.03) policeman directing traffic on Princes street, Cezanne exhibition at National Gallery in background, crowd on steps (7.06)