Cinema Gives Old Folks Christmas Treat (1959)

Item title reads - Cinema gives old folks Christmas treat. Leith, Scotland. L/S cinema at Leith. Various shots of old people lined up outside. M/S Willie Merrilees (Chief Constable of Lothians and Peebles Constabulary) talking to old people. C/U old man. M/S women joining the queue. M/S old people going into the cinema. Various shots people coming into the cinema and being given a florin by Merrilees. M/S as they are handed shortbread and biscuits. M/S Merrilees on stage talking into microphone. Cataloguer’s note: special for Scotland. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1