News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1684

Date Released

11 Sep 1961

Date submitted

8 Sep 1961

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Under the Alps
• 2. All Lit Up
• 3. Braemar Gathering
• 4. For Your Pint
• 5. Modes for Winter

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Highland Games. DESCRIPTION: The scene was near Braemar in the Deeside Highlands. In spite of rather miserable weather, the park was packed in readiness for the royal arrivals. Her Majesty was there. So were Princess Alexandra, Princess Anne, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother. Mighty men of muscle grappled in the games, and dancing to the pipes was a feature of this Highland gathering. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV games. MS crowd. MS men sheltering from rain. LS Royal party arrive. MS Princess Alexandra out of car. LS Queen out of car. MS same. LS rest of Royal party out of car. MS Queen Mother. MLS pipe band. CU drum major. MS band. MS Queen and party watching. MS band. MS same. MS wrestling. MS putting the shot. MS throwing the hammer. LS hammer lands. LS Scottish dancing. MS dancing. CU piper. CU dancing. CU same. MLS unsuccessful shot tossing caber. MLS successful shot tossing the caber.

Keywords

Sport; Music and dance

Locations

Scotland; Braemar

Card file number

83133

Credits:

Camera

David Lowe

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Gordon Coull

Length of story (in feet)

119

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

AP Archive

Email

info@aparchive.com

Web

http://www.movietone.com

Phone

+44 (0)20 7482 7482

Series held

View all series held by AP Archive