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Title: RETURN TO FLANDERS

Reference number: 3033

Date: 1930c

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.31mins

Description: A group leave Edinburgh to visit towns in northern France and Belgium. They attend a ceremony in Ypres under the Menin Gate Memorial.

Includes shots of Talbot House, which is now open as a museum; further information available at http://www.talbothouse.be/en/ [last accessed 27/1/2010]

Shotlist: Men and women waiting for a train; shot of two kilted men approaching camera (0.28) group shot of travellers by train (0.49) tracking shot of people waving, from train (1.02) Shot of sign "Calais-Ville"; tracking shots from train arriving and leaving Hazebrouck station (2.04) shot of sign "Ypre - Ypres" (2.11) pan across Ypres grand square?; shot of sign "Talbot House 1915 - Everyman's Club"; group standing beside Talbot House (2.51) Group shot (3.04) Shot railway sign "Poperinghe" (3.13) pan over Belgian? town from a higher vantage, to a deserted tank and cannon (3.38) shot of church and Menin Gate Memorial (4.22) brief shot of barrow drawn by two dogs (4.38) Further shots of the Memorial (5.02) shot of steam train (5.13) brief shot veterans march with two pipers; speech given from the Memorial Arch to crowd; shots crowd; c/u two buglers; piper; group shots (6.44) gvs children playing on a beach with spades (7.31)

[Information from donor, Gavin R. Whitelaw:- the LMS locomotive seen at Edinburgh Princes Street is a Hughes designed 2-6-0. The letters LMS can be seen on fender, dating the film to post 1927.]