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Title: IT'S MAGIC

Reference number: 6443

Date: 1986c

Director: [filmed by Sandy Sievwright, Stuart Fyvie, Alan Maxwell]

Sound: sound

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.34 minsc

Description: Amateur overview of McEwans Edinburgh International Jazz Festival. General views of audience and various street performers/musicians on a sunny day, intercut with occasional 'sped up' sections.

Credits: [ECS Production]

Shotlist: No title. Busy streets, sunny weather. Women holding banner for McEwans Edinburgh International Jazz Festival. Gvs floats passing, people in costume, cheerleaders. (0.35) Tracking shot Princes Street; Gvs streets of Edinburgh [high speed]. (1.06) Gvs street performers, jugglers and musicians, views audience. Jazz bands, people dancing; two men wheeling upright piano down middle of Princes St narrowly missed by LRT bus (3.06) Gvs people of all ages at open air concert, children with faces painted. tracking shot Pr. Street; shots performers intercut with c/u of crowd (4.49) [high speed] Crowds walking along promenade [Portobello?], camera revolves; (5.33) Sign 'Tonight Gala Premiere Tom Conti in Heavenly Pursuits'. shots people in fancy dress; [high speed] Through multi-coloured tunnel in gallery(?) intercut with more gvs performers and crowds in street. (5.58) Mock 'Holyrood' sign in style of Hollywood. (6.25) Ext. Kings Theatre, sign 'Edinburgh Festival'. The End. (6.34)