Filming in the Spiegel Garden

Category

Library Item

Item no

11916

Title

Filming in the Spiegel Garden, George Square, during the Edinburgh Festival

Description

A film crew is filming in a venue of the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. The venue is full of tables, chairs and umbrellas. The cameraman and soundman are focussed on people seated within this area.

Artist / maker

Ansell, Andrew J L

Date

2007

Size

19.7 x 26.4 cm

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The 'Famous Spiegeltent' is a mobile entertainment venue constructed of wood and canvas with a lavish interior decorated with mirrors and stained glass. It is one of only a few surviving spiegeltents, and was built in Belgium in 1920. It has been used as a venue in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1996. The area surrounding the 'Famous Spiegeltent' in George Square Gardens is known as the Spiegel Garden.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has its roots in the attendance of eight uninvited theatre groups at the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival in 1947. This unofficial adjunct to the festival grew in both size and organisation throughout the 1950's with more and more performers coming to take advantage of the audiences drawn to the capital by the official events. By the end of the decade a well organised Festival Fringe Society had been established with a constitution, brochure, and central ticket sales. Today 'The Fringe' hosts several hundred productions each year, and ticket sales have exceeded 1.6 million.

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Communication > Press > Film crews

Events > Festivals > Fringe Festival

Furnishings > Furniture > Chairs

Furnishings > Furniture > Tables

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Sports and recreation facilities > Festival venues

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