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Title: CORONATION CELEBRATIONS, GLENBOIG

Reference number: 3049

Date: 1953

Director: filmed by Alexander McKendrik

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.35 mins

Description: A parade and gala events to mark the coronation celebrations, at Glenboig, Lanarkshire.

Filmed by managing director of Glenboig Brickworks.

Shotlist: [COL] ext. Glenboig Union Fireclay Co Ltd. Registered Office (0.13) parade of boy scouts, girl guides, children carrying Union Jacks and pipe band (boy scouts?) leading procession (1.42) more shots of procession and of onlookers [out of focus] (3.11) exts. of houses and shops decorated with bunting [slightly out of focus] (4.45) shot of Fireclayworks chimneys (5.00) [BW] exts. of girls Scottish country dancing [at Gala?] (5.10) children's races and shots of people enjoying event (5.56) c/u of people [possibly workers from clayworks and their families] (7.10) shot of a projected image on a screen [of HM in carriage] (7.12) night shot of bonfire (7.35)