SCOTTISH DANCES
Full length video
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Title: SCOTTISH DANCES
Reference number: 8199
Date: [ca. 1915]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6.26 mins
Description:
Early footage of Scottish dancing at an unidentified location - possibly on a set. Includes sword dancing and the Highland Fling.
Please note further research is required to date and identify this film accurately.
Further information received February 2016: The piper who appears on the right side of the screen as one looks at it is likely G. Douglas Taylor, who was a pipe major and dancer, and who also wrote a book titled "Some Traditional Scottish Dances" in 1929. [Note the National Library holds this book, see catalogue link at http://tinyurl.com/jq2tylj]
Shotlist:
[shotlisted from speed corrected tape, manual control track]
(0.00) SCOTTISH DANCES. gvs woman dancing the Seann Triubhas, two men playing bagpipes at either side. Open air. Looks like a theatrical set in background, castle and loch etc. (2.36) HIGHLAND FLING gvs same (4.14) SWORD DANCE. Gillie Cullum gvs same with sword dance (6.26)