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Title: BO'NESS PUBLIC SCHOOL: Queen Mary Smith

Reference number: 0400

Date: 1936

Director: [filmed by Louis Dickson]

Sponsor: [ Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.30 mins

Description: Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival, with the coronation of "Queen" Mary Smith and accompanying procession through Bo'ness.

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: Title. (0.12) Procession; flowers girls climb platform (0.34) Queen's champion throws his gauntlet and raises his sword; shots of coronation ceremony (1.11) shots of presentees, then Duxes and the Provost filing away from the platform (2.22); The procession leaves, walking under flower arches; (3.15) Procession continues through streets; brass band, flower girls; Queen and retinue pass in open topped cars; Queen's champion is led by on a horse; brief shots of floats and watching crowds (4.29)