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Title: TWO DAYS TO REMEMBER

Reference number: 6669

Date: 1952c

Director: filmed by Waverley Amateur Cine Club

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.00 mins

Description: General views Queen visiting survivors of the 1881 'Wet Review' in 1952. Occasional flashback scenes.

Date issues as follows: Stock date 1945, but seems to be 1952 or thereabouts (Queen is present, just after coronation, also dated letter). Too early for 1965, stock frozen during war?
See Related Material for background information to 'Wet Review'.

Credits: ph. W. S. Dobson
storyteller Adam H. Malcolm

Shotlist: Title (0.03) credits (0.08) The 25th Aug. 1881 is historical as the day of the "Wet Review". After her Coronation our present Queen graciously consented to meet the small band of survivors, one of whom never tires of the telling of the story of the 'Two Days To Remember' (0.17) silhouette ruins on hillside, pan down to man fishing at lakeside (0.31) elderly gentleman sitting on bench smoking pipe (0.34) soldier sits down beside him, cut to silhouette ruins (0.37) soldier and man in converstaion, fade (0.45) countryside (0.48) man in kilt with large sporran and apparantly false beard leaves croft (1.05) elevated view Edinburgh (1.08) int. man in room brushing uniform, he looks out of window to Edinburgh (1.21) illustration of troops on horseback, c/u heads, further back view (1.48) (another) elderly gentleman reading from book, gvs various elderly men talking (2.02) c/u typewritten letter from Buckingham Palace regarding 1881 Wet Review, dated 9th April 1952. (2.07) one elderly man lifts parcel onto table (2.24) label on it 'Volunteer Tunic I.Campbell'. Tunic lifted out, mothballs in package (2.40) elderly man puts on tunic and shows other elderly men (2.49) sign in car "Wet Review' Veteran from Kinross' (2.52) ext. elderly man drinking from bottle, women in background laughing. Pan elderly faces, Scott Monument in b/ground. Gvs smartly dressed elderly men (3.27) Gvs men on coach (3.37) coach departs (3.42) Gvs men (3.50) ext. Queen, dressed in white, meets 'Wet Review' survivors. Shakes hands, large crowd in b/ground (4.43) elderly man talking to soldier, pats him on shoulder and leaves bench, fade (5.00)