Full record for 'BO'NESS FAIR 1952 - QUEEN MYRA TAYLOR. PUBLIC SCHOOL'

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Children in costume approaching the main stand. (Bo’ness Children’s Fair Festival of 1952) (clip) [74958119]

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Locations:

  • West Lothian

Subjects:

  • Celebrations, traditions and customs
  • Ceremonies
  • Leisure and recreation

Genres:

  • Local topical

People/organisations:

  • DICKSON, Louis

Decade:

  • 1950s

Title: BO'NESS FAIR 1952 - QUEEN MYRA TAYLOR. PUBLIC SCHOOL

Reference number: 0413

Date: 1952

Director: [filmed by Louis Dickson]

Sponsor: [ Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness]

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.27 mins

Description: Coronation of Queen at Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival, with footage of the fancy dress parade provided by schools not selecting a Queen.

Formerly catalogued under title [BO'NESS FAIR FESTIVAL, 1952] but was retitled May 2006 (when titles were discovered in the Bo'Ness Hippodrome and attached to front of this film)

See also: http://www.thefairday.com/ [last accessed 22/5/2009]

Credits: [Dickson's Pictures]

Shotlist: REEL I [24fps]
No credits. "Queen" Myra sets off along the route in car as she heads for the coronation ceremony. Shots of crowds along the way, people crowd into shot (1.30); She arrives at school (2.55); "Queen" and her retinue arrive for coronation and fancy dress parade; audience are conducted in song by Music master?; fancy dress includes "Two Maypole Queens" "David and Goliath" and "Eastern Dancers". After ceremony, the "Queen" leaves the rostrum accompanied by her entourage and flower girls (9.07)

REEL II [18fps]
No credits. Shots of pipe band leading procession of scouts, Boys Brigade, etc. floats, including "Pow's farm", "Bothy Boys" and "Save the Children"; brass bands, pipe band led by local man Bruce Balderson in comic imitation of a drum major (2.35); "Queen of the Fairies" and flower girls leaving their houses, decorated streets and doorways (4.09); Exterior of the Hippodrome Cinema (4.36)

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