Scottish Screen Archive

Title: CORONATION PAGEANT PARADE AND CROWNING OF PAISLEY'S THREAD QUEEN

Reference number: 1645

Date: 1953

Sponsor: [Kelburne Cinema Paisley]

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.49 mins

Description: The Coronation Day procession passing the Kelburne Cinema, Paisley and the crowning ceremony of Paisley's "Thread Queen". Includes shots of parade of public services and Boys Brigade, Scouts, Sea Rangers, Guides, etc. Local topical for the burgh's Kelburne Cinema.

Shotlist: REEL I

Credits (0.25); Exterior of Kelburne Cinema, Paisley (0.39); crowds of children leaving cinema (1.38); Window display with advert for film on the crowning of Queen Elizabeth (1.49); Kelburne Cinema "wagon" float passes with riders in Wild West costume advertising the filming of the procession (1.55); Float of men dressed as old fashioned football players (2.03); Waiting crowds (2.11); Shot of policeman and officials (2.18); Waiting crowds (2.22); brass band; (2.27); Crowd scenes (2.37); Shots of procession. (2.50); Thread Queen passes in decorated float, advertising screening of film showing the coronation at West End and New Alex Cinemas on 9th June 1953, in Warnercolour in Paisley (2.56); Procession of some of the decorated floats, including one with the coat of arms (3.00); Float advertising James Kilpatrick and Sons Ltd. Electrical Engineers (3.06); A float decorated to represent Queen Elizabeth's crown (3.11); Shots of a team of four white-plumed horses pulling carriage; children in Victorian dress wave from roof (3.24); PCMS grocery float; Kelburn promotional wagon advertising "Redhead from Wyoming"; (3.44); Shots of tenements (3.48); Shots of floats (3.52); Shot of church in Paisley (4.00); Crowds; firemen? waving (4.14); Shot of procession with church in the background and placard for Palladium Cinema (4.19); Crowds line road as procession passes by (4.51); Parks Department float (4.58); Shots of a tram (4.59); David Blane & Sons Ltd float (5.03); Shots of disabled vehicles and trams (5.15); Shots of vintage cars (5.24); More floats and shots of the crowds (5.43); Shots of Lord Provost watching the procession (6.22); Crowds fall in behind procession; decorations and bunting hang from tenements (6.35).

REEL 2

No credits. Shots of crowds following procession (0.11); Parade into Love Street? stadium by public services; procession including Boys Brigade, Scouts, Navy Cadet Corps, Girl Guides, Sea Rangers, Police, Red Cross, etc past Lord Provost [Mural advertisement for "Red Hackle Whisky" in background] (2.17); Shots of band playing (2.22); The "Queen", Miss M Hillcoat. Shots of buglers (2.36); Pageant Queen enters and is seated before crowning ceremony (3.30); She makes a speech (3.48); And is then presented with flowers (4.06); Pageant Queen inspects the parade and then rejoins her retinue (4.40); They all leave (5.14); Shots of on-lookers in the stadium (5.30); Pipe band (5.36); Sea Rangers dancing (5.58); Pipe band (6.15); Guides and Sea Rangers (6.28); Formation display (7.21); Swiss dancers (7.43); Crowd shots (7.53); Go-kart racing (8.25); Pipe band (8.33); Street scenes with bunting. Shots of a car (9.10); The End (9.14).

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