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Title: PERTHSHIRE

Reference number: 5493

Date: 1959

Production company: [ Templar Films]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.00 mins

Description: Brief shots following a general election campaign in Perth & East Perthshire, probably in 1959, showing the unionist candidate Ian MacArthur.

Shotlist: Man and woman stand by bell, man rings it (0.10) ferryman and couple (including Labour or SNP election candidate?) in Waulkmill Ferry 'Aileen'; children on lorry; women alight from lorry by a ladder to vote?; decorating candidates? car with black cat, white heather and horseshoe (1.14) m/s tractors driving about yard (1.31) Ian MacArthur and lady say goodbye to young mothers, get in car door held open by young man with rosette; young girl rollerskates past camera with a billboard poster for MacArthur's campaign tied to her back (2.00)