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Title: DUNFERMLINE PROCESSION III

Reference number: 6870

Date: 1959

Director: [filmed by Dr. M Latyszewski]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.04 mins

Description: St. Margaret's Pilgrimage, including rare footage of an address by Papal delegate [?] to huge crowds in Dunfermline. [see also ref. 6869]

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from VHS copy, at 18fps]

shots of religious procession congregating in Dunfermline Athletic Football Club's ground; celebrants file past a row of scouts holding union and saltire flags, towards a pavilion at one end of the stadium (1.06) ms row of bishops and archbishops; at the end of the row, Archbishop Scanlan of Glasgow turns to face the camera, seated net to auxiliary bishops, canons behind (1.15) shots of crowds gathered behind the railings; members of the Legion of Mary? seated at the front; most members of the crowd carry missals, some have arranged newspapers to shade them from the sun (2.03) view of the platform; man speaking to crowds, dressed in black, wearing a pink biretta [possibly a papal delegate, or papal nuncio]; group sitting in a box draped with a American flag; further shots of ceremony on platform, led by Archbishop Gray (2.48) shots as ceremony is continued amongst the clergy seated before the platform (3.25) ms man conducting choir, organist; c/u shots of the papal delegate? and Archbishop Gray (4.02) celebrants leaving platform (4.04)