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Title: GLIMPSE OF EDINBURGH, a

Reference number: 6439

Date: 1985

Director: filmed by Les Knott

Production company: LK Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 22.00 minsc

Description: Amateur overview of the city of Edinburgh on a sunny day, highlighting many of the tourist attractions.

Credits: comm. Margaret McLaren

Shotlist: Credits, title. Marks and Spencer viewed from shade in Princes Street Gardens. Gvs Princes street, traffic, pedestrians, Scott Monument in sunshine. Gvs gardens, pigeons, people relaxing, family putting. Traffic. Man buying ice cream. Closer view flower murals in gardens. Open air theatre, show in progress, people watching. Wreaths laid at war memorial. People sunbathing. Queen street. The Royal Mile, High Street, gvs. St. Giles cathedral. Ext. Palace of Holyroodhouse, gvs gardens and gates. Ext, Royal Botanic garden. Gvs flowers, int. greenhouses palm trees, water lillies. Ext., pond, duck. Gvs river, fishermen. Boats and yachts in small harbour at Cramond. Ext. Cramond Inn, Cramond Kirk. Ext. Edinburgh castle, people outside castle. Gvs soldiers, cannons. Tourists milling about, views of Edinburgh from ramparts. Guard ceremony, firing of the cannons. The End.