ROTHESAY FANCY DRESS PARADE
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Title: ROTHESAY FANCY DRESS PARADE
Reference number: 2335
Date: 1928
Sponsor: [ Waverley Picture House, Rothesay]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 5 mins
Description:
Children in fancy dress and the parade of decorated floats.
One of a collection of local topicals commissioned from cameraman in Glasgow by James Gillespie, proprietor of the Palace and later Waverley Picture Houses, Rothesay. see article in Rothesay Express, 25 Sept. 1928, and ad for the Waverley Picture House showing same.
Shotlist: Credits (.05) pan across frontage of the Palace Cinema in Rothesay and shops on either side [J. Stirling Gillespie, the smaller of the two men standing on the left of the entrance, talks briefly to a passing "fishwife"] (.31) [21 Sept. 1928] gvs fancy dress, competitors, mostly children, in park (1.46) parade of decorated floats (3.05) float for "Witty Wags" concert park. Gillespie in shot at front (3.14) parade on foot continues (3.25)