FAIRGROUND STV FILLER
Candy floss, the dodgems, the big wheel, bingo - all the fun of the 1960s fairground! (clip)
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Title: FAIRGROUND STV FILLER
Reference number: T1676
Date: 1966
Production company: STV
Sound: mute
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.00 mins
Description: A programme filler of fairground footage shot at night, showing people enjoying brightly lit rides and stalls.
Shotlist: Gvs of children and adults enjoying the rides and sideshows at the fair, at night; walking amongst lighted rides; c/u lights; child playing fruit machines; customer trying games of chance, and hoopla; father and child sitting on carved horse in merry-go-round (1.02) stall advertising "Can Can", knocking over cans; shots of two armed ride; c/u goldfish in plastic bag; ints. toffee apple stall; bingo stall; boys emerging from "Rib Tickler" ride; bumper cars; duck shooting stall; shots of ride lit up, helter skelter; gvs crowd milling around ground (4.02)