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Title: SUMMER FAIR, EDINBURGH LOCAL CONSERVATIVE ASSOCATION, EASTER PARK 1967

Reference number: 6255

Date: 1967, June 3

Director: [filmed by Douglas Mickel]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.44 mins

Description: Amateur record of a Conservative Association Summer Fair at Easter Park, Edinburgh on June 3rd, 1967. Records all the typical fairground attractions, including skittles, 'roll the penny' and putting. Includes footage of Anthony Stodart M.P.

See P/CN179. Film makers diary records detailed information such as location and date - this record features DWM ref 268 - 273.

See also HOMEBUILDERS: Mactaggart and Mickel and the Scottish housebuilding industry ed. Miles Glendinning and Diane Watters, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from Betacam SP 597, manual control track]

(0.00) no title credits; people putting up signs Easter Park, Davidsons Mains (0.19) various horses and carriages bedecked in balloons makes their way to park, includes shot of man playing bagpipes (1.22) gvs Summer Fair, with crowds of people, fairground rides, candy floss being prepared and eaten, a fruit machine being played outdoors - people standing around chatting, they include Douglas Mickel's wife Marjorie and his daughter (Angela?) (2.19) gvs children enjoying pony and cart rides, fairground attractions, games - gvs rhododendron bushes and gardens (2.59) ints marquee where a catwalk fashion show is underway - gvs people enjoying games such as skittles, 'roll the penny' and putting (3.49) marching pipes and drums parade in grounds (4.09) Anthony Stodart M.P. makes a speech to the assembled crowds on the steps of house (a red Dalek model appears to be brought on stage during the speech!) - the prize draw for the Garden Fair is performed and prizes awarded (including the Dalek) (5.04) young people fooling around eating candy floss in front of the camera (5.27) gvs packing up, people, including Douglas Mickel and his wife, help dismantle and transport stalls etc (6.11) ints office where accounts are completed - cash and coins are bagged up neatly on the table - packing up continued - The End (6.44)