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Title: BORDERS LOCAL NEWSREELS NO. 2, COMMON RIDING PROCESSION, SELKIRK

Reference number: 6194

Date: 1901

Director: [filmed by David Gaylor]

Production company: [ Border Kinematograph Co.]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.03 mins

Description: The Common Riding Procession in Selkirk.

The Border Kinematograph Co. was established in Hawick by local jeweller David Gaylor c. 1899, operating until c. 1906 across the Borders towns. See research notes and contemporary press cuttings.

Shotlist: (9.05) No credits. Shots in town streets of parade of people walking along with brass band and banners, one bearing the word "Coronation". Several men and boys on horses and ponies follow. The parade of townspeople and visitors to the town, escorting the Standard Bearer back to Market Square for the 'Casting of the Colours' ceremony (11.08); - Blank - (11.17)

[From research notes: These shots were taken at the junction of High Street and Back Row. The house in the top left of picture with sliding doors later became the site for the Picture House Cinema, now Safeway supermarket]