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Title: ENGINEERING SHOW / FELIX

Reference number: 6640

Date: 1930c

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction Fiction

Running time: 9.30 minsc

Description: Amateur general views engineering show spliced together with Felix the cat cartoon and general views pageant and games held on Winterfield Golf course, East Lothian.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS: live action 12fps, cartoon sections at 16fps]

Gvs men gathered at agricultural show [possibly Highland Show], various engineers' stands. Engineering demonstrations (0.08) man demonstrates miniature steam engine. (0.38) Fowler stand; traction engines. (1.53) Shots of Ransome's stand; model farm machinery (1.09) ms men smoking, signing; one jokingly mimes horns and tail (1.24) gvs people milling around stands. (2.05) Sign on large building, ' Highland.. (obscured)', (2.09) Gvs show. (2.24) faint, inverted (2.27) Animated Felix the Cat cartoon. (2.40) "Oh Good Lord! what agony! Suffering is man's legacy!" (2.40) Gvs cartoon. (2.43) "What's the matter, Dear old chap? I do hope that there is no mishap!" (2.43) Gvs cartoon. (2.46) "Are you thirsty, Have you eat? Tell me your troubles Now we've met". (2.46) Gvs cartoon. (2.49) "No, old felix, its my feet Now that they and roadway meet". (2.49) Gvs cartoon, man has hole in boots. (3.02) "Just you cheer up Walker my lad. I've an idea that's not too bad". (3.02) Abbreviated rest of cartoon.. Felix caterwauls at man in house nearby and gives boots thrown at him to Walker. The End. (4.44) man signing to older woman (4.50) [b&w] exts. Gala Queen procession, girls in costume carrying train of dress, in a small park. (5.08) exts. people in costume in park. Showman comedian on donkey (5.20) ls 'tilting the bucket' competition, Craigengelt Hotel in background. [Winterfield Park, Dunbar] (5.31) children in costume; fancy dress parade. (6.04) Gvs comedy football game played in costume, with an enormous ball. (6.43) exts. family group in garden (7.57) Fancy dress policeman (8.10) [dark] (8.17) Gvs Leith Hospital Pageant parade along streets, followed by horse-drawn floats. (8.29) ints. two young men; brief shot driver in loco cab (8.39) exts. parade; Sailors marching, after model boat. (8.58) Children in open air swimming pool with wave machine. (9.23) Group stand next to rowing boat on beach holding sign: "6"; young man in swimming costume, covered in lard? walks into water (9.30)