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Title: CEREMONY AND ABC CINEMA

Reference number: 5077

Date: 1961c

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.25 mins

Description: Shots of the ceremony where Bob Riddell-Black, the producer of "Seawards the Great Ships" is presented with the 1961 Oscar awarded to the filmmakers for best Live Action Short Film, during the Edinburgh International Festival. Exteriors of the ABC Cinema in Edinburgh (now Odeon), including a billboard advertising a 'Scotland on Screen' programme.

Shotlist: No title. Sir Alexander King presents Bob Riddell-Black [founder of Templar Film Studios, and producer of Seawards.... ] with the Academy award for Seaward the Great Ships under flashing lights of photographers c/u Oscar; Riddell-Black makes a speech on stage standing by the statuette; exts ABC on Lothian Road; c/u billboard: "Edinburgh International Festival Scotland on the Screen: The Heart of Scotland; As Long as You're Young; Weave me a Rainbow; Ayr from Auld Brig; Metal In Harmony" (1.25)