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Title: IT HAPPENED IN PAISLEY

Reference number: 0561D

Date: 1935c

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6 mins

Description: A brief history of the La Scala Cinema, Paisley in its first 14 years, introducing the management and staff.

Shotlist: [Cont. from previous sequence - see ref. 0561C]

Credits (1.25); We have much pleasure in presenting to you many of the outstanding events that have taken place in Paisley and items of local interest in the past 14 years. These have all been carefully recorded and preserved by the management of La Scala and the time is now opportune for their presentation. Opening of La Scala, September 1921. Still photograph of four members of staff. Still of ten members of staff (4.19); Our Chief Operator has shown nearly 50,000 miles of film. Still of the Chief Operator (4.42); Alexander B King CBE JP is the man who is responsible for the booking of all pictures shown in this theatre. He, as most of you know, is one of the best known figures in the film world. He has the knack, in pictures, of booking them big and booking them clean, and that is the reason why we built up a great family house. Still photo of Sir A B King (5.13); Mrs Robb and Mrs McFadyen - box office staff. (5.28); Photo of Mrs Robb and Mrs McFadyen. As Provost of Paisley and on your behalf ladies and gentlemen, I thank the management of the La Scala for the wonderful entertainment they have provided for the citizens of Paisley during these many years. Good night (5.57).