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Title: STOP PRESS LORD PROVOST'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH CINE SOCIETY

Reference number: 6484

Date: 1972, March 15

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.20 minsc

Description: Amateur film of the Lord Provost's visit to the E.C.S. (Edinburgh Cine Society) in March 1972. Brief view of the various film-making demonstrations and members he meets.

[Please not that viewing copy is mute - it may also display visible defects such as flicker.]

Credits: cam. Brian Winpenny
comm. Bill MacLeod

Shotlist: Selection of labelled cups and trophies. People formally dressed for visit of Edinburgh Lord Provost, Sir James Mackay. Welcome by Edinburgh Cine Society (ECS) President Russell MacKnight, Vice President Elise Phimister, Secretary Margaret Richardson, Treasurer Ed Rushton. Brief shots of Provost inspecting photographs on noticeboard, film-making equipment on display in vestibule shown by Jack Grant. Lord Provost inspecting live filming under John Walford. Various animation layouts displayed by Mary Cuthbert. Titling demonstration by Dr Norman Spears. Editing of film by Ian Rintoul, film being striped by Wally Trapp. Bill MacLeod, Douglas Robertson and John WIlson demonstrate sound being added to film. Lord Provost records a short message 'to demonstrate how recordings can be made on film'. Provost in projection box with Les Knott and Jim Turnbull. Sir James having tea with reception committee in the library, organised by Maisie Tait. Film show at 9pm. Videotape on television of part of Lord Provost's visit recorded courtesy of Lizars limited. Colour film of his visit shot, processed and projected in record time by Larry Sutherland. Summing up speech by Russell MacKnight about Lord Provost's visit, thanking him for the privilege. Lord Provost' s thanking ECS speech, in which he mentions Dufaycolour and apologises for his wifes absence from the visit. Ecs. The End.