Festival City

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1890A

Date Released

26 Aug 1965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival City. DESCRIPTION: Pictures show highlights of the Edinburgh Festival. SHOTLIST: GV Edinburgh. GV Princes Street. MS people looking into gift shop window. MS people looking at display in shop window. CU display in shop window. CU poster for Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra. MS poster for Scottish National Orchestra. Pan down poster for recitals by John Ogden. CU poster. Opening concert. CU poster (Marlene Dietrich). MLS people queuing. MS man sitting on ground. TS along feet of people queuing. MS people buying tickets. CU book of theatre plans. MS theatre bookings being sorted. CU dollars being paid for theatre tickets. LS Scots Pipers and marine band playing. GV ditto. LS Fiji military band. MS ditto. LS ditto. GV crowd. GV massed bands finale. MS crowds up theatre steps. BS ditto. Player in the Holland festival presentation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. MS ditto. MLS ditto. MCU poster for Macbeth. MS Meg Wyn Owen combing her hair ready for her part in Macbeth. CU ditto. MS Leonard Maquire putting on his costume. LS rehearsal of battle scene in Assembly Hall. Pan spotlights. MS battle scene in progress. Pan spotlights and ceiling lights. MS battle scene in progress.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure

Locations

Edinburgh; Scotland

Footage sources

Templar Films

Card file number

90090

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

192

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