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Title: BO'NESS CHILDREN'S FAIR FESTIVAL 1954

Reference number: 0339

Date: 1954

Director: [filmed by Louis Dickson]

Sponsor: [ Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.34 mins

Description: Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival 1954, including procession of Bo'ness schools, fancy dress parade and coronation of Queen Mary Gibson.

Very comprehensive website about the Bo'Ness Fair can be found at at http://www.thefairday.com/ [last accessed 12/2/2018]

In April 2009, the Hippodrome reopened as a working cinema - see http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/hippodrome/ for further information. You can also find out about the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival which is held there annually: http://www.hippfest.co.uk

Shotlist: REEL I

Credits (0.15); Bo'ness Fair Festival 1954. Queen Mary Gibson (Academy). Brass band. Provost. Children taking part in the festival leave their homes decorated for the occasion; Queen of the Flower Girls; Queen of the Fairies, etc. Queen Mary Gibson leaves her house; gvs crowds outside her house. Crowds outside Bo'ness Academy; yeomen of the guard at the door, horse-drawn carriage. Pageantry inside school hall (4.48); School children parade in the park. Procession of the schools; Fairies and Flower Girls; Festival Queen's entourage. She arrives and is crowned; includes shot of crowd being conducted in song, man using cine camera to film Dux; children in fancy dress approaching the platform; elevated shots of crowd as Fair Queen departs (9.20).

REEL II

No credits. Pipe band, brass band in street (0.34); local man Bruce Balderson walks ahead of a pipe band, mimicking the drum major (1.40); Queen Mary Gibson passes in a carriage preceded by her retinue. Pipe band in town street. Procession of bands, floats, carriages and fancy-dress parade. "Queen" in carriage, with a guard of the Boy's Brigade (5.32); Local dignitaries, including the Provost, police official and clergy, at indoor tea (7.35)