A Guid New Year To One And A Aka A Guid New Year To Owe Auda (1929)
Item title reads A guid New Year to one and a. With picturesque and dramatic ceremonies as old as the Regiment itself the famous 1st Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders welcome the New Year. Dover, Kent. Intertitle just before midnight the old year the oldest soldier in the Battalion is played out of Barracks to strains of Happy we ve been L, S as the men of the Battalion march along carrying torches on long sticks, pipers and drummers play, and the oldest soldier, dressed as old father time, is carried aloft. M, S as he sits there. Various shots as he is taken out of the gates, he waves as he goes. Intertitle on the stroke of midnight the new year the youngest drummer boy is played in wi a waggin M, S as the soldier strikes the gong for midnight. M, S as the boy stands at the door and knocks. It is opened and he walks along followed by the pipers and drummers again. Intertitle the O. C. and officers serve Atholl Brose to everyone in the
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