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Title: PRESENTATION OF FREEDOM OF BURGH OF DINGWALL

Reference number: 0596

Date: 1951, July 27

Director: [filmed by James S. Nairn]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.20 mins

Description: Provost Grigor presents the Freedom of the Burgh of Dingwall to Rt Hon Thomas Johnston PC and to Major John Stirling, MBE, of Fairburn.

Ceremony took place at 12 noon in the Town Hall, Dingwall, on Friday, 27 July, 1951.

Credits: CAC Presents

Shotlist: Credits (0.06); Title superimposed on page of programme open to show pictures to both men (0.24); Shot of tower with flag atop. Shot of Dingwall from the tower (1.14); Street scenes. Bunting on Main Street, Flag bedecked Town Hall, Dingwall. Provost Grigor greets Mr and Mrs Stirling and they enter (2.00); Cars arrive and Thomas Johnston and his wife alight and enter the Town Hall cheered by crowds (2.45); Shots inside of the ceremony and presentation of casket (4.47); Tom Johnston gives a speech (4.54); Shots of crowds outside as party appears on the balcony (5.32); They emerge and mingle with the crowd (7.26); Long shot of the town from the tower and pan across to the town (8.11); The End (8.20)