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The mystery of film footage of a beautiful bride on her wedding day in Glasgow in the 1970s has been solved.

Just hours after the Daily Record posted the footage on our website, her family got in touch with us — from both Canada and England.

We told how Alexei Slater, 34, discovered a roll of 8mm film in the attic, which was filmed footage of his parents’ wedding day in Glasgow’s Queens Park.

Along with the treasured footage, which Alexei had digitised, a second roll of film was discovered showing another couple getting marriage.

(Image: Malcolm Smullen)

The scriptwriter, who lives in London, was hoping to track down the other couple who appeared on the second roll of film, to give them the video footage.

Now we can reveal that the beaming bride is Eleanore Pass, who was getting hitched to Merril Smullen.

We were contacted by the couple’s son Malcolm Smullen, 43, a dad-of-two, from Toronto, and Eleanore’s sister Sheila Brill, 62, who was maid of honour on the day.

Malcolm, who was born a year after the wedding, said: “It is absolutely amazing. It was an extremely pleasant shock.

“I can see my mum standing there with my grandad, Cyril Pass, and amazingly, I actually have still photos of the same scene.

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“To think there is a video which has been lost all of these years almost blew me away.

“It is just so nice to see my mum looking so radiant.”

Sadly, Eleanore died in April 2010 from multiple sclerosis, but on seeing the footage her sister Sheila immediately recognised her sibling’s big day.

Sheila, 62, was just a teenager at the time of the wedding which took place in the Queens Park synagogue in Glasgow.

She said: “I was maid of honour on the day and if I remember right Brian Slater was the best man and he shot the footage.

(Image: Malcolm Smullen)

“From memory it was March 26, and I’m pretty sure it was 1974.

“Most of the people who are in the film are desperate to get hold of a copy of the film. We have photos of the wedding but it’s unusual to see film, that’s what makes this different.

“It was very emotional watching it and we are desperate to get hold of a copy.

“For our mum Frieda, who is still alive and 93, for her it would really be something to see.”

Eleanore and Merril — who emigrated to Canada in 1980 — also had a daughter Kim, 39, who now lives in the US.

Sadly the couple divorced in the early 1980s and Merril has yet to be told about the film.

Cyril died in 1998, but stay-at-home dad Malcolm and his physician wife Mary — who named their daughter Elise, five, after his mum — will now be able to show her and their 18-month-old son Joel the “family treasure” footage of their gran and great-granddad.

(Image: Malcolm Smullen)

He added: “Despite the long distance I had a great relationship with my granddad for all of my life, and it is wonderful to see him on the film.”

“I’d really like to thank the family who discovered this. They have the thanks from the bottom of my heart. It is very moving to see it.