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The Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle in the early 1960s, as Walt Disney Productions film scenes from ‘Greyfriars Bobby’. (clip) [74959097]

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Locations:

  • Edinburgh

Subjects:

  • Media, communication and the creative industries
  • Animals

Genres:

  • Television news

People/organisations:

  • Templar Films

Decade:

  • 1960s

Title: (FILMING "GREYFRIARS BOBBY")

Reference number: 5202

Date: 1961c

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios?]

Sound: mute

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.55 mins

Description: A snapshot of the filming of Walt Disney's "Greyfriars Bobby", in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle.

Shotlist: gvs Edinburgh Castle grounds, people in costume; a pipe band march outside, members of the press take photographs of a small dog, "Bobby". A movie camera films proceedings; band leader plays with Bobby; extras waiting, in period dress; Bobby follows band leader at head of the band; an extra is revived after having fainted?; takes continue, c/u movie camera. c/u slate, reads " Walt Disney Productions, Greyfriars Bobby. Director Don Chaffey, Camera Ray Sturgess" (1.55)

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