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Title: BRITISH MOVING PICTURE NEWS GREEN'S NEWSREEL: Marriage of Green / McMahon

Reference number: 1900

Date: 1920

Production company: Green's Film Service

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1:07 mins

Description: A compilation reel including footage of the fairground ride called "The Whip", possibly at Green's Amusements at the Carnival in the Gallowgate, Glasgow. The film also shows the marriage of Edward MacMahon to Mary Frances Green, daughter of George Green.

According to John Swallow, fairground historian (Nov. 1987) Green's acquisition of "The Whip" from the USA caused great interest and it was received with considerable excitement wherever it went.

Additional information from Tommy Green, member of the Green family, Feb 2004: Believes the footage of the Whip ride to have been shot at the Carnival showground, Gallowgate Glasgow. Green's secured the UK rights to this US patented fairground ride and they put it on at the 1924 Wembley Exhibition and at amusement grounds in Blackpool and Morecambe. A few of these rides survive today.

Credits: "The British Moving Picture News, Green's Film Service" credited on intertitle.

Shotlist: No credits. Shots of fairground ride on "The Whip"; including shot of fairground workers, possibly Green's Amusements at the Carnival in the Gallowgate, Glasgow (0.17); Shots of an "animated" cake (0.26) [1920] Glasgow: a large company assembled at the church of St Aloysius to witness the wedding of Mr Edward D MacMahon and Miss Mary Frances, eldest daughter of Mrs Green and the late George Green, the Carnival, Glasgow. Shots of the bride arriving at the church accompanied by brother Bert ? Green (0.54); Shot inside the church of the wedding ceremony (1.04); Shots of the newly married couple leaving the church and being showered with confetti thrown by the guests (1.33).