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Title: GLASGOW CINEMA BALL

Reference number: 3553

Date: 1947

Production company: Pathe News

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 0.48 secs

Description: Celebrities at the Cinema Ball in Green's Playhouse, Glasgow in aid of charity.

1949 was the last Fancy Dress Ball, thereafter the event moved to the City Chambers subsequently becoming a dinner dance. Includes William Kempsell who was a member of the CEA Benevolent Fund Glasgow, and Secretary of the Glasgow Cinema Club. His advertising business agency was also involved in cinema advertising throughout Scotland.

This film can be viewed on Pathe's website at http://www.britishpathe.com/video/glasgow-cinema-ball/query/glasgow+cinema+ball [last accessed 24/2/2016]

Pathe also has further unused/unissued material [note: no sound] from this newsreel which can be found at http://www.britishpathe.com/video/cinema-ball-in-glasgow/query/glasgow+cinema+ball [last accessed 24/2/2016]

Shotlist: Annual Glasgow Cinema Ball in the cause of charity. gv's couples dancing in Green's Playhouse Ballroom, Glasgow (0.18) c/u comedian Will Fyffe, attending the ball (0.23) shots of people dressed up for the midnight fancy dress parade (0.30) c/u Horace Cogshill, President of the Cinema Guild (0.32) c/u stage star Marjorie Brown (0.37) c/u Glasgow cinema chief, W. Kempsell (0.42) brief shot dancing (0.48)