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Title: MELROSE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB ANNUAL SPORTS - 12TH APRIL 1952

Reference number: 8819

Date: 1952, April 12

Director: filmed by Andrew Clark

Sponsor: Melrose Rugby Football Club

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 15.44 mins

Description: Amateur coverage of the annual seven-a-side rugby tournament at Greenyards, Melrose in 1952.

Local joiner Andrew Clark was asked by Melrose Rugby Club to make the films, hence his favoured camera position.

See additional information for newspaper reports about the Melrose sevens tournaments and extracts from the official history of the Melrose Sevens.

Shotlist: [shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]

title - shot of Melrose RFC stand and flagpole at Greenyards - shots of players coming on to pitch - gvs of rugby game, possibly Royal High School against Gala RFC (1.28) shots of players running on to pitch for game between Melrose RFC and Edinburgh Academicals - Melrose score two tries at far right corner, then another at left (2.45) kick-off of game between possibly Rosslyn Park and Selkirk RFC - two tries to Selkirk, one to Rosslyn Park, and a conversion hits the post - one more try and a conversion to Rosslyn Park (5.10) gvs probably of second round game between Melrose and Langholm - a try to Langholm on the right, one to Melrose on the left, a penalty / conversion to Langholm on the right, a try to Langholm on the left, and a try to Melrose on the right (6.57) shots of game possibly between Stewarts and Rosslyn Park - Rosslyn Park score a try on the left - action on the right leads to a possible Stewarts try in the far right corner - Stewarts score a try on the left (9.38) gvs of semi-final between Melrose and Royal High School - Melrose score a try on the far left - Melrose score a try at the near right corner and convert it (10.30) gvs of second semi-final between Stewarts and Heriot's - Heriot's score a penalty / conversion - Heriot's score a try on the far left - shots of officials standing chatting on pitch - gvs of running race on track (12.02) FINAL. MELROSE 8 POINTS, STEWARTS F.P. 5 POINTS - gvs of play in competition final, including Melrose try on right, Stewarts try on right - shots at end of game, Melrose captain? is lifted through crowd of spectators - shots from above of Melrose team coming forward to receive the Ladies' Cup - shots of captain making speech into microphone - shots of Melrose players receiving medals - c/u shot of Melrose captain? smiling to camera - gvs of groups of Melrose RFC officials? standing on pitch, smoking and chatting - group shots on pitch of Melrose RFC team - more group shots of officials and players (15.44)