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Title: AGRICULTURAL SHOW

Reference number: 6529

Date: 1930c

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.31 mins

Description: Amateur footage of traction engines and trade stalls at an agricultural show, including shots of equestrian events and a bowling green.

Shotlist: [no title] black (0.25) gvs at agricultural show, group of men and boys around miniature traction engine, 'Ballach, Edinburgh' shed in background - sequence of short shots including gvs of stalls of Bamford Ltd., Aveling & Porter, W.H. Baxter of Leeds, Fleming & Co. selling farming hardware and traction engines - more shots of miniature traction engine under steam, being driven around showground by young boy, followed by onlookers, coming to a halt beside steam road-roller - gvs of crowd posing for camera around miniature traction engine - more shots of boy driving it across showground (2.27) shots of traction engine crossing field on showground and coming out of gateway on to main road - gvs of show-jumping event, onlookers gathered around horses - shots of rotary lawn sprinkler in operation on bowling green, pulled around by operator - gvs of men playing bowls - gvs of chickens feeding in enclosure (4.31)