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Title: ACTORS

Reference number: 6546

Date: 1935c

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.59 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a fete at a country house, featuring a Boys Brigade pipe band and dance and theatrical performances.

Shotlist: [no title] blank (0.32) gvs of Boys Brigade pipe band marching and playing in gardens of large country house - gvs of stalls in gardens - shots of seated audience watching performance on open-air stage, one character dressed as a lion, performers jump down from stage - shots of stall, Boys Brigade members fooling around - shots of group of young women performing historical dance re-enactment in front of another dressed as Mary Queen of Scots? and two instrumentalists - shots of group of young girls performing Margaret Morris style dance routine on lawn - more shots of Boys Brigade pipe band marching - shots of dance tableau on lawn involving a nobleman, a shepherdess and Cupid, all dressed in white - shots of a woman dressed as a huntsman leading a jig on the lawn - shots of stall and Boys Brigade members eating plates of ice cream (3.59) blank (4.03)