Sir Alec Wins Kinross

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1797

Date Released

11 Nov 1963

Date submitted

7 Nov 1963

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1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sir Alec Wins Kinross. DESCRIPTION: Quite a responsibility for the voters of Kinross. The future of a new Prime Minister and his Government in their hands. But even though the Conservatives suffered a body-blow at Luton, their confidence in the result at Kinross and West Perthshire proved to be well founded. Sir Alec Douglas Home had a conservative majority of more than nine thousand over the Liberal. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV countryside. CU sign Kinross. GV town’s main street. MCU voters entering polling station. BS voters in cubicle. MCU voting slip into box. CU another (2 shots). CU Sir Alec Douglas Home. MS same walking. MS Jo Grimond with Liberal candidate. CU Mr Alastair Duncan Millar - Liberal candidate. MCU Labour candidate Mr Andrew Forrester. CU same. CU Scottish Nationalist Mr Arthur Donaldson. CU Independent Unionist Mr Ian Smith. CU Richard Wort - the so-called Light and Dark Blue Independent. CU Actor William Rushton. MCU Sir Alec receives congratulations.

Keywords

Politics and government; Performing arts; Writers

Locations

Scotland; Kinross

Footage sources

Templar Films

Card file number

87520

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

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