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Title: ST. MARY'S SCHOOL 1937: QUEEN ANNE

Reference number: 0408

Date: 1937-1938

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

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.13 mins

Description: Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival. Coronation of Queen Anne Spence and fancy dress parade. Includes footage from another year (possibly 1938 featuring Queen Kathleen Miller?)

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: 1937 Queen Anne St. Mary's School. Festival Queen arrives and is crowned. "Presentees" in fancy dress, Duxes and the Provost leave the platform. "Queen" [Anne Spence] and retinue leave, filing under bowers held by flower girls, rest of platform party leave. Floats procession through streets. Festival Queen and civic officials lay wreath at war memorial (2.35); Shots of a ceremony from a different year, possibly 1938; champions' challenge, Coronation ceremony, Presentee fancy dress parade. "Queen" [Kathleen Miller?]and retinue leave. Shots of "Queen" in carriage (4.49)