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Title: INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A PROVOST

Reference number: 3567

Date: 1955 - 1956

Director: [filmed by Jimmy Nairn and Robert Wotherspoon]

Production company: Nairatt

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 56.17 mins

Description: Some events in the life of the Provost of Inverness including the Kirkin' of the Council, the Armistice Service of 1955, the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden and the opening of Bellfield Park paddling pool.

Robert Wotherspoon was Provost of Inverness and Director of Caledonian Associated Cinemas.

Credits: A Nairatt Production Nairn's Photo-Cineservice, Inverness

Shotlist: Part One
opening credit Inverness - Capital of the Highlands (.30) l/s Inverness Castle, and shots of people walking by the river (1.11) Incidents in the Life of a Provost The Kirkin' o' the Council shots of people going into the church, and of the procession leaving and walking through streets of Inverness, watched by onlookers, and procession going into city chambers (3.58) Armistice Service Nov. 1955 procession of Highland regiment, Boys' Brigade, pipe bands, navy, army and air force cadets and veterans marching on "Ladies Walk" beside river (6.05) shots of service taking place at memorial with onlooking crowds, c/u of wreaths (10.26) procession marching past Lord Provost (11.32) High Court at Inverness Castle Dec. 1955 ext. of High Court, judges going inside, shots of guard outside Castle (12.42) Lord Wheatley inspects the Guard shots of same (13.55) Passing-out Parade, Jan. 1956 shots of same (19.08) The 210th Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, fought on the 14th April, 1746. shots of Culloden moor, and of lone piper, wreaths being laid at Culloden Monument, piper playing, speeches (22.59) Bellfield Park Opening of New Childrens Paddling Pool shots of families standing round paddling pool, with the Lord Provost standing behind a Union Jack laid out on the ground over plaque, unveiling plaque, with shots of children paddling in pool and mothers beside prams (25.52) Inverness 1956 Remembrance Day Service Provost R. Wotherspoon unveils 1939-45 Memorial Panels shots of speeches, and service (29.32)

Part Two
shots of a highland regiment marching through street of Inverness (.12) shot of Kirkin' O Council (?) coming out of City Chambers and proceeding to Church (1.32) soldiers coming out of Church and marching through street, with pipe band (3.00) shots of procession of Lord Provost and Councillors' procession through street and going into City Chambers (4.45) shot of Inverness street with traffic and pedestrians (5.03) parade and inspection of highland regiment at Inverness Castle (?), (8.51) int. shot of speeches being given in fire station, with fire engine seen in background, firemen and onlookers listening (10.41) ext. of Northern Area Fire Brigade station, shots of fire engine driving out and shots of fire engine driving in to Station (11.26) int. shots of Lord Provost and guests talking (12.22) march past of regiment and veterans in street of Inverness before Lord Provost, shots of onlooking crowds, pipe bands (16.55) inspection of regiment by Lord Provost (plaque above gateway reading "Cassino, El Alamein, 79th Mandalay, Reichswald" (18.41)