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Title: WAVERLEY LOCAL NEWS REVIEW

Reference number: 6502

Date: 1949c

Director: filmed by Ron Beresford and Adam Malcolm

Sponsor: MCMXLIX Charities Week Committee and Edinburgh University Film Society

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.41 mins

Description: An assortment of unrelated films, including 1949 Charity Day at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh Cine Club Dances, a day at the beach and (badly faded) footage of the Grand Canyon.

Credits: p. Adam Malcolm
ph. John O. Russell
ph. Freddie Gelder
ed. John O. Russell
ed. Ron Beresford
ed. Adam Malcolm

Shotlist: [B&W] Title. A Rattling Good Time, A Glimpse of Edinburgh University Charities Week 1949 credits. (0.42) gvs of fancy dress parade and floats as they move through streets of Edinburgh, including papier mache locomotive; sign "Please Contribute and Prevent That Sinking Feeling", c/u students making making bovril on a float (2.23) gvs of comedy football match (2.48) gvs of people in fancy dress collecting for charity [one student selling? a newspaper with the name "Gardyloo"] (3.31) torchlight parade and fireworks (3.27) ints. of dance hall intercut with shots of band (4.49) [COLOUR] exts of men filming (5.01) shots of Edinburgh; brief elevated shot of Queens' visit (5.44) gvs of people on beach with sand dunes (poss. Scougall Bay again?) women dressing up in mock military clothes, clowning with large swastika flag; (7.29) slow motion shot woman jumping down dune; young people sitting and playing in sand dune (8.17) [B&W] rugby match at Murrayfield (8.58) [COLOUR] gvs of Grand Canyon, faded to magenta (10.28) [B&W] gvs of Cine Club Dance; seated group having tea (11.41)