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Title: BORROWSTOUN SCHOOL 1927: QUEEN RUBY HYSLOP

Reference number: 0405

Date: 1927

Director: [filmed by Louis Dickson for Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.16 mins

Description: Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival in 1927. Coronation of Queen Ruby Hyslop and the fancy dress parade.

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: [No credits]. 1927 Borrowstoun School Queen Ruby Hyslop Festival Queen and her retinue arrive, mount the rostrum for the coronation ceremony. Fancy dress parade and shots of the "Queen" and her entourage leaving through flowered bowers, past crowds holding up square union flags (1.33)