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Title: BLACKHALL CHILDREN’S SPORTS 1958

Reference number: 9361

Date: 1958

Director: [filmed by Lionel Butler]

Production company: The Blackhall Co-ordinating Committee

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.23 mins

Description: Amateur footage of races at a Blackhall children's sports day, 1958.

Films shot by Lionel Butler - a member of the Edinburgh Cine Club where he worked with many people, including Adam Malcolm. He knew Alan Harper of Campbell-Harper Films.

Shotlist: The BLACKHALL CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE Presents:- - title - gvs sports field, high jump in foreground, crowds, Union flag flying - boys' sprint races - gvs crowd - girls' sprint races - shots of crowd - boys' and girls' sprints, policeman walks through crowd - more races - c/u shots of crowd (6.01) sand raked for long jump competition - boys' sprint - crowd gvs - young girls' sprint - judges conferring - young boys' sprint - more races for young children - girls' high jump - sack races - boys' high jump [slow motion and reversed] - c/u shot Tannoy speakers - brass band playing - girls' egg and spoon race - c/u shots officials, one with cine camera - more egg and spoon (11.19) older boys' and girls' sprints - three-legged races -children playing in long jump sand-pit - girls' obstacle race - gvs of crowd - boys' obstacle race - crowd shots - men's race [slow motion] - women's race [speeded up] - bicycle stability race - official sorting table of prizes - guests on stage for prize-giving ceremony - The END (15.23)