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Title: STARKS PARK

Reference number: 1729

Date: 1920 / 1925c

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.59 mins

Description: Sports day at Starks Park, Kirkcaldy, including a bicycle race, tug-of-war and a competition to climb a pole and win a leg of ham.

16mm print made from original in 1978. No knowledge of whereabouts of original 35mm.

Shotlist: [shotlist retimed from speed corrected tape, manual control track]

[no title or credits] Shots of open air stadium, probably Starks Park, during local sports day. General views of spectators and participants during races, high jump, bicycle race, tug-of-war (2.09) and competition to climb a greasy pole to win a leg of ham, showing varying methods of climbing (3.23) Shot of winner with the ham (3.34) gvs races, including hurdles, cycling, obstacle race (5.56) The End (5.59)