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Title: BRAW LAD'S DAY, 1969

Reference number: 6924

Date: 1969, July

Director: [filmed by Andrew Arrol Young]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.06 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the Braw Lad's Day, Galashiels in July 1969. [Part of a collection of amateur footage of Galashiels from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s]

Shotlist: Shotlisted with the aid of donor's notes

Reel 3

No credits. gvs July 1969 Braw Lad's Day. Crowds gathered; c/u individuals; shots towards Braw Lad carrying Burgh Standard, crowd in f/ground (0.24) shots [partly obscured by heads of crowd] of ceremony, girl in bonnet holding up red, and white roses at the War Memorial (1.20) brief int. girl seated by window (1.29) ls party of riders, surrounding Burgh Standard, in front of the Burgh buildings; ms Burgh Buildings' clock, at midday (1.54) Provost and Braw Lad carrying standard, out on balcony (2.07) gvs girl leaving suburban house; [dark] shot van pulling up; group of people, most older women, alight and walk inside (3.16) brief shot of tabby cat sitting on a path; silhouette of boy taking a phone call at a window; [dark] ints (3.53) shot of small boy, mostly obscured by finger over lens (4.06)