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Title: VISIT SCOTS CURLERS 1949

Reference number: 7154

Date: 1949

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.48 mins

Description: A visit made by the Scottish Curling Team to Canada in 1949. Features footage of curling team walking through a station, piper leading curlers on a street parade, followed by close up of team members before play at an indoor ice rink and general views of the curling match.

It is likely this film records the Scottish team's first visit to Canada since 1938, just prior to the Second World War to compete against Canada in the Strathcona Cup (which Scotland won on this occasion) [research is currently underway to verify]

See also ref. 9906 which we believe to be the return visit of the Canadian curlers a year later.

Shotlist: [No title] gvs column of curlers carrying brooms process through a railway station, headed by a piper, passing a large Christmas tree (0.23) procession on street outside (1.06) group shot of male curlers, wearing badged bonnets; c/u one pair shaking hands (1.30) group of men standing in a snowy park; pan across group (1.49) ints. of men standing on sidelines of a rink comparing round and flat brooms (2.50) gvs men curling on an indoor rink (7.15) group shot of winners (?); gvs groups of men throwing brooms into the "house" and shaking hands (7.48)