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Title: EDINBURGH LOURDES CELEBRATION

Reference number: 6884

Date: 1968, September 8

Director: [filmed by Dr. M Latyszewski]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.00 minsc

Description: General views of a religious procession, in honour of the apparition at Lourdes. Particiapants appear to be wearing traditional Ukrainian, or Polish dress.

Shotlist: shots of open air altar; shots over crowd, a few in wheelchairs; people, some quite frail, taking their seats; (0.42) brief shot boys' choir; crowds watching religious procession arriving. (0.50) Procession led by altar boys, Girl Guides, Boy Scouts and other children holding banners, followed by retinue of priests. (2.01) ls Religious ceremony taking place. (2.16) Shot of children in traditional dress (Ukrainian or Polish?) holding a banner of Mary and Jesus, shots of seated crowds, (2.50) religious ceremony, shots of priest accompanied by other priests holding a ceremonial umbrella over him as he blesses infirm individuals in the crowd (4.00)