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Title: HUNTLY GALA DAY

Reference number: 1373

Date: 1951

Director: [made by James S. Nairn for the Playhouse, Huntly]

Sponsor: [Playhouse Huntly]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.00 mins

Description: The last day of the week-long Huntly Gala Day Festival, with shots of the Gala queen and sports competitions, a bonfire and fireworks display. [The Gala was opened by singer Robert Wilson and Provost J Barron].

See Additional Information file for information on personalities in the film. Local topical for the Playhouse, Huntly made by James S Nairn at the request of Connor Kay, the manager. Information supplied by Mr McTavish, former projectionist, Oct. 1996.

Credits: [Local topical for the Playhouse, Huntly made by James S Nairn at the request of Connor Kay, the manager]

Shotlist: No credits. Shots of young people dancing in hall to accordion band (1.01); Shot of the staff of the Playhouse Cinema (1.14); Night shots of bonfire and fireworks (2.10); General views of parade (3.30); Shots of crowds at sports ground; ls fancy dress competition (4.15); Presentations by Gala Queen (4.24); Close-ups of Gala Queen and her "maids" as they walk through an ornamental garden; c/u Gala Queen raises her hand in "OK" sign; the group emerge from a doorway and walk past camera (5.35); General views at sports ground of the crowds and children, large group waving to camera (6.23); General shots of sack race (7.00); Small boy with model yacht [cinema manager's son]; he stops to look at a poster: c/u "Festival of Britain, Huntly Gala Week...1951...Trades Parade...Strathbogie Pipe band" etc.; little boy walks away from the park to float his yacht in a tin tub instead (7.40); pan right over The Square; General views of parade, including girls riding bikes made up as the HMS Deveron and Bogie (9.38); Mock Highland dancing and shots of children racing (10.14); Presentation by Gala Queen (10.35); Pillow fight (11.00)