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Title: EDINBURGH CINE SOCIETY - SOCIETY ACTIVITIES

Reference number: 6627

Date: 1937 - 1939

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.40 minsc

Description: Amateur footage various of Edinburgh Cine Society outings between 1937 and 1939. Includes footage from 1938 Empire Exhibition.

Shotlist: Forth Rail Bridge. Title. 1937. During the summer of 1937 we had several enjoyable outings. Smartly dressed people walking past river, through woodland. On the river Almond. Gvs same. Illegible sign. Tracking shot Forth from boat. Bridge. People disembark. Sign 'To Abbey'. Crowd ext. abbey. Sign 'Abbot's Camera'. Back on boat, gvs people. Lt. Col. C.G.Lawson - Committee. Man pours drink, cheers to camera. Miss McNie - Committee. Woman smiling. Gvs members filming. Mr F.E.Kohler - Vice President. Brief view man. Mr G.N. Fordyce - Technical Advisor. Brief view man. Gvs members outing. Mr P. McNie - Committee. Brief view man. Mr. R.W. Heriot - President. 1938. March 1938 the Newsreel Unit commenced operations. Gvs members filming. Tests made for the film "The Munro Family at the Exhibition". Gvs same. June - The Club commenced production of the Empire Exhibition Film. Swinging pendulum cars with lights. Tracking shot roller coaster. People arriving at exhibition. Dodgems, fairgroung rides, waltzers. Gvs people at exhibition. Summer outing 1938. People standing in street under umbrella, rainy day. Edinburgh Cine Society Outing to Scoughall 1939. Sunny day, people arriving, some in costume. Tracking shots cars, People fooling around on beach, sunbathing, playing in sea. Picnic. 1939. The Film Mrs Mason Wants to Know goes into production. Gvs cast featuring people with paper bags on head.