Edinburgh Festival (1962)

Titles read: “EDINBURGH FESTIVAL“. General view of Edinburgh, Scotland. Shots of Princes Street, crowds walking along. C/U of sign announcing the Edinburgh Festival. General view of St Giles Cathedral. Several shots of officials in robes walking in a procession to the cathedral for the opening ceremony. Crowds look on. Lord Provost stands on Cathedral steps while fanfare is played then he makes a speech. Massed pipe bands march along Princes Street. Shot of the Monseigneur News Theatre. At Turnhouse Airport we see musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra alighting from a Vanguard plane and boarding coaches. General view of Princes Street. C/U of floral clock. Queues of people at the Festival ticket office. Artistic Director of the Festival The Earl of Harwood talks to Russian composer Shostokovitch beside a piano in a room. Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya is seen with her cellist husband Mstislav Rostropovich; he shakes hands with other cellists. Yvonne Lefebure plays ’Minstrel’s Prelude’