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Title: WAVERLEY NEWSREEL 1939 REEL 1

Reference number: 6650

Date: 1939

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.36 minsc

Description: Amateur newsreel featuring general views various events in early 1939. Intertitles.

Credits: Produced by the News Reel Unit of the E/C/S

Shotlist: January 1939. Seasonable weather greeted the New Year. Snowfall on road, garden. Men shovelling...and most of the ponds in Edinburgh were bearing... boys putting on skates, various people ice-skating on pond The final shot of the Munro Family. Table being set...taken in the studio at Fettes Row. Stage set of tables being prepared, actors preparing. Leadhills. The highest railway in the British isles closes down. Sign 'Elvanfoot change for Leadhills and Wanlockhead'. Crowd on platform boarding train. Steam train departs, gvs across landscape and railway viaduct. Granton Trawlers laid up owing to a strike by the Skippers and Mates. Pan stationary trawlers at Granton harbour. C/u various aspects of boats, stacked fish boxes. World Premier at the Regal Cinema. Brief view ext. cinema. Actress Sophie Tucker in Little Bo Peep dress accepting flowers on stage. Speaks into microphone, then bows. Shots of several parked cars at harbour, fleet at Queensferry. Sailors disembarking. Hearts v Celtic Feb. 1939. Crowds in street. Sign for Tynecastle. Mounted policeman. Int. ground, pan crowd. Gvs football match in play. Celtic, in white shirts, score. Brief view brass band (half time?). More gvs football. Fulltime score unclear. Man climbing on high girders, gvs Murrayfield stadium extensions. Gvs construction site and workmen. Sign ext. 'The Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion'. Architects plans. Camera int. building, nearing completion of construction. Man using elevator. Tracking shot along cradles and washhand basins. A Post Office lorry comes to grief on the Queensferry Road. Gvs lorry on side, man climbs out of window. Our President lends a hand. Men helping to right vehicle using wooden levers.

[Note: actual speed is 16fps, this shotlist is timed at 18fps]