• Short Summary

    Actors and personalities attend an annual ball in Glasgow.

  • Description

    Full title reads: "Glasgow Cinema Ball".

    Greens Playhouse, Glasgow, Scotland.

    Personalities attend their annual ball at Glasgow's Green's playhouse.

    LS MS Dancers on the floor.

    CU Will Fyffe, the comedian and character actor.

    LS the fancy dress parade.

    CU Full face of Horace Coxall, President of the Cinema Guild watching, head and shoulders.

    CU Marjorie Brown, the actress.

    CU Marjorie Brown, presenting prizes to the winners.

    NCU W Kemmell or Kemsell, Glasgow cinema chief.

    LS of dancers on the floor.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1175.11
    Media URN:
    40526
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    20/02/1947
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:47:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:24:42:00 / 01:25:29:00
    Canister:
    47/15

Comments (1)

  1. John Kempsell says

    Gentleman at the end of the newsreel is my grandfather William Kempsell
    who owned the business Kempsell's Advertising Service. He was Glasgow's go-to man in the 1930s and 40s for cinema advertising. He was also one of the cinema promoters who persuaded the city council to allow cinemas to open on Sundays.
    The council eventually agreed, so long as all the door money went to charitable causes. By 1944, the Sunday film screenings had raised over £77,000 for local causes.
    Mr Kempsell, who was the chairman of the Cinema Trade Benevolent Fund, is near the end of this Pathe newsreel of the 1947 Glasgow Cinema Ball, held in the rooftop ballroom of Green’s Playhouse (later the Apollo).

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