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Title: BRAEMAR GAMES, TWEED MAKING AND EDINBURGH

Reference number: 2720

Date: 1950

Sponsor: Joint Production Committee SEFA

Production company: SEFA

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.47 mins

Description: Scenes at the Braemar Highland Games; the spinning and weaving of tweed and street scenes in Edinburgh are included in this short amateur film.

Note: Edinburgh and tweed making scenes made by Edinburgh Scottish Educational Film Association, Braemar Games by Aberdeen S.E.F.A.

Shotlist: pan highland games (0.28) l/s caber tossing (0.49) c/u of hammer throwing (0.58) gvs pipe band [camera shake] (1.46) brief shot of highland cattle (1.55) [blank insert] (2.04) c/u fleece dyeing, wool spinning and tweed being woven on weaving machine into a tartan pattern (3.38) gvs Princes Street and Gardens, Edinburgh (4.18) gvs street scenes, Edinburgh and shots of Royal Scottish Academy, the National Gallery [stonework is black] and Edinburgh Castle (4.47)