OPENING OF THE BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL
Full length video
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Title: OPENING OF THE BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL
Reference number: 9523
Date: 1973*
Director: filmed by A.J.G. Bodie
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.50 mins
Description:
Footage of guests attending a meal at Banff Springs Hotel in celebration of its opening.
See also refs 9518 and 9521 for other films reels taken at this same event.
This hotel is still thriving, see https://www.fairmont.com/banff-springs/ and not to be confused with its namesake in Scotland https://thebanffsprings.co.uk/ [last accessed 12/05/2020]
Shotlist: pan crowd outside hotel – Provost of Banff, Alexander Gordon, wearing traditional Canadian headdress talking with Ivor Petrak, pan to crowd of guests – shots of guests outside hotel (0.38) ints, footage very underexposed, c/u gvs guests in dining room talking and eating meal, Canadian and Scottish flags on tables (2.33) pan of hotel dining room, shot underexposed (2.50)