Edinburgh - Festival City

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1785A

Date Released

22 Aug 1963

Stories in this Issue:

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival City. DESCRIPTION: Well established on an International scale, this annual assembly in Edinburgh, for the Festival of the Arts has indeed set itself high standards. Sheila Falconer appears in the review Fringe Faces. And in the Gateway Theatre a rehearsal for the fight scene from All in Good Faith. But you’d have to go a long way to find anything as impressive as the Military Tattoo on the Castle Esplanade. SHOTLIST: GV Edinburgh Castle. Operatic Company arrive at station. Same board bus. LS Princes Street. CU Indian couple. Various people in Princes Street. LS Usher Hall. Pan down of queue outside. CU poster Covent Garden Orchestra. MS Assembly Hall and sign. Poster The Rabbit race. MS rehearsal of same. Paul Massie rehearsing. MS Gillian Lynne’s Modern Dance Company. MS Sheila Falconer. MS rehearsal in All Good Faith. GV fight sequence. GV Military Tattoo. Zoom out from Tattoo. GV same.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Displays; Performing arts; Military

Locations

Edinburgh

Footage sources

Templar Films

Card file number

87094

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

180

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