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Title: NEW RECTOR AT ST. ANDREWS; BATHERS IN OUTDOOR POOL; BO'NESS HILL CLIMB; QUEEN ELIZABETH LAUNCH

Reference number: 5651

Date: 1938 - 1939

Director: [filmed by Mr Laidlaw]

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.00 mins

Description: Amateur footage offering snapshots of various events, notably the arrival and inauguration of a new rector at St. Andrews University and the Bo'ness hill climb car rally.

Shotlist: [shotlist detail aided by commentary provided by donor. Shotlisted from VHS]

shot young woman lighting cigarette, smiling at camera (0.15) three boys drink from a beer bottle, car in b/ground (0.39) brief shot John Anderson, followed by two pipers in RAF uniform; shots at RAF Leuchars as an RAF war plane taxis on runway and stops. A group of people alight including the new rector of St. Andrews University Air Vice Marshall David Munro - he shakes hands with the RAF men, university officials and others who have gathered on runway to greet him, many students watching from large cars lined up along roadside (2.16) c/u Charles Armour with Joan Henderson (Ralston) in background, gvs students crowding round the rector elect, now in academic robes (2.33) ms torches being lit; shots torchlit procession by night. (3.33) Shots of many bathers at outdoor 'Step Rock Pool', St. Andrews. Includes brief shot of John Anderson, more footage of Ken Lowe (who went on to be the Queen's chief physician in Scotland) (4.24) gvs crowded beach at Castle, St. Andrews (4.41) Douglas Fairbairn running towards car, getting in and starting to drive in car rally (4.50) gvs car rally through Bo'ness streets [Bo'ness Hill climb] (5.06) [Colour] further gvs Bo'ness Hill Climb (5.54) [B/W] tracking shot from car (6.13) Tommy Ralston and friends enjoying tea (the film was taken on the film-maker's 21st birthday); muddled shots shop ext, and toasting his birthday (6.36) exts. Notre Dame, Paris; woman peers over edge, beside gargoyles (7.13) Tommy pumping up tyre on MG car (7.31) Shots of the Seine (?); ls woman scrubbing her laundry in the river; men angling; ls boys with rods standing on a spur of gravel in the river (8.20) extreme l/s of the launch of a large liner ship on the Clyde - the Queen Elizabeth? (9.49) ls news-stand, advertising free poster of ship with the Daily Record (9.55) ls boy trying to give away free posters (10.00)