PRINCESS MARY PRESENTS NEW COLOURS TO ROYAL SCOTS
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Title: PRINCESS MARY PRESENTS NEW COLOURS TO ROYAL SCOTS
Reference number: 0116
Date: 1926, August 4
Director: [filmed by James Hart]
Sponsor: [ Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6.42 mins
Description:
Princess Mary, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Scots, presents the new Colours to the 1st Battalion at Maryhill barracks, Glasgow. 4th August, 1926. [Incomplete]
Attributed to James Hart, as one of his series of local topicals ‘Grosvenor Topical News’.
Shotlist: Credits (0.05) Princess Mary, Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment; she passes a rank of Girl Guides; inspects troops and meets veterans; (2.40) Princess speaks to veterans wearing an old-fashioned uniform, with tricorn hats (3.53) march past; shot of crowds watching behind rope; Princess Mary presents the new colours to the 1st Battn. Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment); (5.20) pan over seated group of families and veterans (5.34) three cheers; parade of new colours (6.07) after ceremony, shots of the Princess Mary accompanied by officers outside the barracks. Shots of the crowd (6.42) [Incomplete]