Full record for 'SHOP, LEITH STREET'

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  • 3rd party copyright
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Locations:

  • Edinburgh

Subjects:

  • Food and drink
  • Transport

Genres:

  • Amateur

People/organisations:

  • Edinburgh Cine and Video Society (ECVS)

Decade:

  • 1930s

Title: [SHOP, LEITH STREET]

Reference number: 6493

Date: 1936* (?)

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.24 mins

Description: Amateur footage featuring exterior of a smart cafe in Leith, Edinburgh.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected tape, manual control track]

(0.00) [no title] Ext. Austin's cafe (Leith), people walking past, some waiting staff standing outside. Sign on wall 'Snacks, lunch and tea room'. Traffic passes. Menus on window, small trees outside (0.35) View along longer street, pedestrians (0.58) C/u menu 'SOUPS Tomato, Kidney, Oxtail 4d, FISH, ENTREES, COLD BUFFET, SALADS, SNACKS' (1.01) View of street, trams passing each other, small van darts between them (1.24)

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