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Title: BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY EDINBURGH - PRESENTATION OF COLOURS 29TH MAY 1966

Reference number: 6418

Date: 1966, May 29

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 11.40 minsc

Description: Amateur film of the scene outside St. Giles Cathedral on the occasion of the presentation of colours to the British Red Cross. Various views nurses in uniform and brief internal view of stained glass.

Shotlist: no title, elevated view statue outside St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. Zoom into ext. Cathedral. Title. Woman with leg calliper standing outside talking to man. Nurses in uniform walk into the Cathedral in pairs. People ext. St Giles. Nurses standing for inspection by high ranking military officer, shop frontages in background. People entering cathedral. Elevated view from various angles of inspection. Int., stained glass windows. Ext., group of nurses exit holding two flags - Union flag and red cross. Crowds exit and gather outside Cathedral, views from various angles. Groups of people pose for photos, including nurses on the steps. C/u two nurses with medals. The End.