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Title: BO'NESS CHILDREN'S FAIR FESTIVAL 1959

Reference number: 0343

Date: 1959

Director: [filmed by Louis Dickson]

Sponsor: [ Caledonian Associated Cinemas]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.00 mins

Description: Views of the Bo'ness Fair Festival in 1959, including Schools parade, and crowning of Queen Mairi Pritchard.

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 (0.11); Provost and his wife stand outside their house; Brass band parade down street; Queen of the Flower Girls ; pipe band; Queen of the Fairies leaves her house, passing under a decorated gate with the sign "Ainslie"; Fair Queen appears from her front door, attended by a fairy and her father? passing under a decorated gate with "Queen Mairi" over the arch; Queen Mairi in an open-topped car (2.55) c/u Bo'ness Academy badge; Queen outside the Academy; Children in fancy dress inside school hall; Queen, attendants and flower girls (3.57); School's parade in park; Kinneil School; St. Mary's School; Yeomen of the Guard; Fairies (5.28) Flower girls; Procession of attendants and Queen to platform (7.15) crowning ceremony; views of crowds singing and children in fancy dress approaching the platform; (10.40)

REEL II

No credits. Parade through town streets. Pipe band; brass band; floats c/u on sign "This is being Filmed for Future Screening at Bo'ness Hippodrome"; gvs crowds, brief shot three African women; small girl holding up kitten (1.40) floats, intercut with crowd; Bruce Balderson "leading" a brass band; "Queen's" entourage ride past in coaches, Scouts, Boy's Brigade, Sea Cadets (4.37); The playing fields. Punch and Judy show. Fairground; includes footage shot while riding round a swing ride (6.25) The End.