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Title: EDINBURGH CINE SOCIETY CLUB NIGHT

Reference number: 6596

Date: 1966*

Sound: mute

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.38 mins

Description: Couple receive tour of Edinburgh Cine Society. Woman receives instruction on cement splicing small gauge film. Lochside sequence.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected VHS copy, manual control track]

Ext. Edinburgh Cine Society. (0.00.05) Elderly couple arrive at a door. (0.00.14) Man answers door and welcomes the couple. Taken to the library and are shown books. (0.00.56) Couple are shown projection room with 8mm small gauge projector demonstrated by projectionist. (0.02.00) Couple are shown into small screening room, curtains open and they are shown screen. (0.02.31) Guide points out pictures on wall in another small room. (0.02.47) People filming inside. (0.05.59) Couple collect cup of tea from service hatch in wall. Couple chat and are given complimentary tickets. (0.03.22) Couple shake hands with guide and leave through a glass door. (0.03.35) Shown picture on wall. Blank. (0.03.46) Projectionist and projection room, c/u 8mm projector. Film spools on floor at woman's feet, she points this out to projectionist. (0.04.11) They take reel off projector and to another room where splicing material is laid out. (0.04.36) Splicing demonstration by projectionist using gloves and cement splicer. Woman watches on. (0.06.13) They return and lace up projector. (0.06.32) C/u various splicers and boxes, cement and gloves. (0.07.07) Ext. rocky stream in countryside, younger couple walking dog, trying to cross the stream. (0.09.01) Cars parked, people with camera equipment in countryside. Pan shot loch (St. Mary's?) and a large house. (0.09.35) As the couple with the dog sit by the stream they flag down passing car on adjacent road. Man lets them in and car drives off. (0.10.38) View from parked car of lochside, sheep and swans nearby.