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Name/TitleBillboard

About this objectBillboard with listings of Christmas and New Year films shown at Leith Whaling Station. ‘Xmas & New Year Festival of Fun / Leith Harbour / 1959-60’

Position 1: On front of board; Method: Painted; Content: XMAS & NEW YEAR FESTIVAL OF FUN / LEITH HARBOUR / 1959-60 // CHRISTMAS EVE 8pm ONLY 24th DEC. / CINEMASCOPE ~ MUSICAL / SEVEN BRIDES for SEVEN BROTHERS / HOWARD KEEL ~ JANE POWELL // CHRISTMAS DAY 12.30 / 25th DEC / COWBOY / Jennifer Jones as “RUBY GANTRY” / Co starring ~ Charlton Heston / 6.30/8.30 COMEDY ~ TAXI / DAN DAILEY and CONSTANCE SMITH // BOXING DAY 26th DEC. 6.30/8.30 CINEMASCOPE ~ MUSICAL / Eleanor Powell as Marjorie Lawrence / in “INTERRUPTED MELODY “ / Co starring Glen Ford // SUNDAY 27th DEC 6.30/8.30 COWBOY ~ / AUDIE MURPHY in “DESTRY” // WEDNESDAY 30th DEC 6.30 ONLY AMERICAN FILM ~ / “The Prisoner of Zenda” / STEWART GRANGER & DEBORAH KERR // NEW YEAR’S EVE 31st DEC 7PM GUS RANKIN and his ‘stars’ in / ‘Hogmonay Revels’ // NEW YEAR’S DAY 1st JAN 12.30 COWBOY ~ / Aude Murphy IN “GUNSMOKE” / 6.30/8.30 AMERICAN BOXING FILM ~ / PAUL NEWMAN as ROCKY GRAZIANO / in Somebody Up There Likes Me // We extend heartiest of Season’s Greeting to all our Patrons and wish them Happiness and Prosperity / in 1960.

Place MadeLEITH, SOUTH GEORGIA

Medium and MaterialsWood, Paint

Inscription and Marks

MeasurementsH. 1900mm; W. 940mm;

Subject and Association KeywordsLEITH HARBOUR

Subject and Association KeywordsCINEMA

CollectionSALVAGE

Object TypeSocial history

Object number1995.4.279