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Title: INVERNESS GALA QUEEN 1950

Reference number: 1555

Date: 1950

Director: [filmed by James S. Nairn]

Sponsor: Caledonian Associated Cinemas

Sound: mute

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.15 mins

Description: The Inverness Gala Queen parade, 1950.

Found in former Playhouse Cinema store, Inverness.

Credits: CAC presents

Shotlist: [shotlisted from tape, manual control track]

credit and title (0.14) gvs parade as it turns corner into Castle Street, including 'Inverness Farmer's Dairy' float, horse drawn carts, fancy dress and general crowd scenes (2.03) main streets, thronged with people, many of whom notice the camera and smile or get embarrassed. The YMCA is in background in earlier shot, traffic has to stop as road is crowded with people (2.19) pipe band leads the parade, gvs same including shot with Gala Queen / entourage in buggy (3.53) shots of bystanders, as taken from moving vehicle taking part in the parade. Children walk along the edge of the crowds to stay in the frame (4.19) further crowd shots, including Queen and her entourage in buggy (4.43) Gala Queen and entourage make their way to the podium, where the coronation ceremony occurs, speeches are made (5.46) leaving the podium area (6.08) two men dancing on platform - seems to be a comic 'Highland Fling' (6.24) three ladies standing (6.31) shot of Gala Queen and her two ladies in waiting, sitting on 'thrones' (6.56) brief shot of young girl and boy who helped carry Queen's train, girl is talking animatedly. Gvs crowd (7.14) And now at the Empire the Gala Queen gvs as women in evening gowns and men in black tie suits carry out a series of choereographed moves on the stage of the Empire. The Inverness Gala Queen and her entourage are introduced to the audience, curtsey and stand with flowers on stage (8.53)