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Title: ROYAL VISIT - JUNE 1953

Reference number: 6282

Date: 1953, June

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.07 mins

Description: Royal visit to Edinburgh, streets, castle and Murrayfield in 1953. Various ceremonies and processions in different locations.

Shotlist: no title, two horsemen in ceremonial costume gallop up street (0.04) ceremonial horse parade (0.24) c/u Queen and Prince Philip seated in carriage (0.34) pipe band procession up crowd lined street, Edinburgh? Gvs street and ceremonies on ramparts of Edinburgh castle, gvs crowds (1.36) men playing bugles, band with Royal seal (2.54) as pipe band and soldiers march past ramparts, crowd in background rush to edges (3.16) int. Murrayfield stadium, pipe band on pitch, crowds in stand and chimneys/smoke in b/ground (3.27) silver, unwieldy looking helicopter hovering above pitch, it picks up a man in harness and winches him off ground. Press box/scoreboard in background - goals, tries, points. Rptd from different angle (4.04) view from crowd as royal car drives around pitch, Queen meets dignitaries (4.40) Lord Provost shows Queen Royal seat (4.44) view from crowd of dog jumping, girls lying on backs doing bicycle exercises (5.15) colourful parade enters from corner of pitch. People in colourful dress with large, bright umbrellas (5.23) large chimney in b/ground, parade (6.15) girls in pink skip onto pitch and dance (6.38) girls skipping with flower baskets, gvs parade (6.52) large numbers of people organised on pitch, pipe bands etc, Royal car departs (7.07)