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Title: GALASHIELS

Reference number: 6878

Date: 1965, August 8

Director: [filmed by Dr. M Latyszewski]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.14 mins

Description: Preparation of dancers and musicians prior to a performance of traditional dance (Ukrainian?).

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from time-coded VHS]

men, women and children in traditional dress [Ukrainian?] with musical instruments, including c/u man playing tsymbaly, getting ready in changing rooms. (1.11) pan over audience sitting in hall (1.20) girl having her hair dressed (1.24) a group of girls perform a dance with linked hands, musicians are seen at the edge of the stage [accordion, violin, drum and tsymbaly] (2.00) men join the dance; (2.08) girls dance, then sing in a group (2.34) brief shot of audience applauding; men perform a sword dance, a boy dances solo (2.57) children's dances; mixed dance performed with scythes, sickles and wreaths of corn (4.00) shots of audience and stage (4.14)