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Title: PROMENADING rothesay long version

Reference number: 9050

Date: 1906 - 1909c

Production company: ( Gaumont?)

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 4.44 mins

Description: Rare footage as a camera follows around the bay in rothesay from a tram showing the town as an Edwardian tourist destination.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS, manual control track]

no titles (00.00) t/s from tram travelling around bay at rothesay. views of pedestrians from tram. sailing boats visible in bay (00.22) passing man and woman on bicycles. approaching edge of Skeoch Wood. gvs approaching rothesay (01.02) passing group of women wearing white blouses and large decorative hats men in trousers and blazers wearing bunnets or boaters hats another group of women passing in blouses and hats. men selling wares from carts at side of road including ice cream. passing families walking along esplanade (01.46) shots passing 'Black's Boat Hiring Stance'. passing woman in white dress and decorative hat riding bicycle (02.11) approaching esplanade. spires of West Free Church and St Johns (New Parish) Church (now demolished) visible in background. passing group of men and women, many women carrying parasols (02.24) passing another ice-cream vendor pushing cart on street. Eastern side of waterfront visible in background including spire of Trinity Church (02.30) passing Stewart Memorial Statue and waterfront gardens with bandstand. crowds of people sitting in gardens. tower and roof of pier is visible. women in dresses carrying parasols, older women dressed in black with bonnets, men in suits and bowler hats (03.44) man walking with horse and cart mounted with advertising boards for 'Ettrick Bay - Dancing Every Evening'. characteristic rothesay street lights are visible (03.48) pan l-r of busy pier. crowds of people walking towards incoming boat, exts of pier building, boats in harbour and buildings on waterfront. shots of faces as people walk past camera (04.44)