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Title: LIVING CITY, the

Reference number: 8910

Date: 1984

Director: d. Murray Grigor

Sponsor: The City of Edinburgh & Scottish Tourist Board

Production company: Camera Lucida

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 10.20 mins

Description: A portrait of Edinburgh, accompanied by the Picturesque notes of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1878.

Title preserved as part of an AHRC funded video preservation project in partnership with Glasgow University, entitled 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland'.

Credits: ed. Russell Fenton
m. Ron Geesin
narr. Robert Trotter
ph. Mark Littlewood

City of Edinburgh Museums and Art Galleries acknowledges financial assistance from the Scottish Tourist Board.

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ocs (.08) Title (.22) ws one o'clock gun fires, c/u ball on Nelson's monument drops; cityscape (.58) pan over engraved panorama of Edinburgh (1.18) gv's details Gothic architecture and Holyrood Abbey (2.30) ints. Holyrood Palace; c/u portrait woman and skull; elevated shots palace (3.22) elevated pan Edinburgh from castle to St Giles intercut brief costumed scenes and ints. (5.32) gv's New Town buildings; pan from new town to castle (6.44) brief shot yachts; tilt from rail bridge to Calton Hill (7.19) elevated pan castle to Botanical gardens (8.01) gv's Botanical gardens (8.29) gv's National Monument on Calton hill; twilight cityscape (9.26) low shot castle and fireworks [night] (9.53) Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1878 (9.59) ecs (10.20)