RIVALLING THE RAINBOW
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Title: RIVALLING THE RAINBOW
Reference number: 0444
Date: 1929
Director: filmed by Jay's Screen Service
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 8.00 mins
Description:
The Battle of Flowers on Jersey. [Filmed on Kodacolor film stock.]
To be projected through Kodacolour filter. Filmed on Kodacolour film stock. See also refs 3674, 0445 and 0446
Made as personal film. See National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive paper archive series 4/22.
Credits:
A Natural Colour Production
Presented by Ronald L Jay
Shotlist: Credits (.19); Shots of crowds (.31); Heralded by the band the parade starts off. Shots of bands and floats covered with floral decorations (1.20); Who could resist these programme sellers? Shots of people in fancy dress. Parade of prize winners. Shots of various floats (4.00); The Battle begins. Shots of people throwing flowers. The work of weeks is destroyed in minutes (it seems like sacrilege to us). The battle rages (5.24); Havre-des-pas pool. Shots of divers and swimmers, water-polo and general views of the beach (7.25); And here we find the Rainbow Trail. General shots of people on the beach (7.51); ecs (7.55)