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Title: INVERNESS FESTIVAL YEAR 1951

Reference number: 1474

Date: 1951

Director: filmed by J. S. Nairn and Mr. Atterson

Sponsor: Caledonian Associated Cinemas

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.27 mins

Description: The two reels cover Inverness Festival Year and highlight open air gatherings, pipeband parades, and highland games.

Shotlist: REEL I

No credits. General views of events in Inverness during Festival Week. Open air gatherings, crowds lining streets to watch parades, pipe bands, march past of veterans and salutes taken by Provost and civic officials (4.16); Shots of large country house. Guests mingle in grounds (5.22); General views pipe band and spectators (6.20);

REEL II

No credits. Shots open air stadium as crowds watch races and pipe bands. Display of Scottish Country Dancing. Highland Games events. Bandsmen's race (5.58); Presentation of trophies (6.03); Page from book on Clan Mackintosh and Clan Chattan. Photo of man in naval uniform and bride (6.30); Pipes and drums (6.50); Exterior of large country house. People in grounds and entering house. Close-ups of hosts (8.20); Shot inside study? in the house of a sporran and sceptre? Box of medals (8.40); General views of guests/crowds outside in the grounds. Close-ups of the host couple. Demonstration of "Sword dance" (10.35); Host addresses the crowd. They sing "Auld Lang Syne" (11.45); ecs (11.50)