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Title: GOOD MORNING DAWN

Reference number: 7930

Date: 1977

Director: d. Christine Fox

Producer: Christine Fox

Production company: Scottish Television

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.53 mins

Description: A Scottish Television documentary about the history and significance of the Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival, filmed in the year of Elizabeth II's Jubilee.

Very comprehensive website about the Bo'Ness Fair can be found at at http://www.thefairday.com/ [last accessed 12/2/2018]

In April 2009, the Hippodrome reopened as a working cinema - see http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/hippodrome/ for further information. You can also find out about the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival which is held there annually: http://www.hippfest.co.uk

Credits: research Bill Thomson, Marion Caldwell
ph. Ron Fraser, Jim Peters
sd. rec. Alan MacNicol
dubbing Garry Coleman
film ed. Iain Mackenzie
p. & d. Christine Fox

Shotlist: [shot-listed from VHS - manual control track]

STV ident - c/u of crown - brief shot of coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey - title over c/u shots of Bo'ness Fair Queen being crowned - gv of crowds in park at Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival - shots of John McLaren walking along street and entering offices of Journal and Gazette - talking head McLaren in office about Bo'ness Fair, high panning shot of town and Firth of Forth, ending at pit wheel (1.21) commentary about Bo'ness Fair Queen - tracking shot from boat of Bo'ness - pan in to window of terraced house, then shot of group of ex-Fair Queens having tea at window - talking head Jean Paterson about being Queen - sequence of 1939 archive footage of her coronation (2.45) talking head Helen Burnett - sequence of 1932 archive footage of her coronation (4.06) talking head Mary Smith about being Queen - sequence of 1936 archive footage of procession and her coronation (4.53) talking head John McLaren - talking heads parents of current Queen Dawn Galloway - gvs of women and children in garden preparing bunting (5.54) shots of men painting ceremonial arch - shots of Bo'ness streets, old men sitting on bench, children on pavement (6.53) high shot of town - gvs of town and buildings - sequence of Victorian line drawings of children working in coal mines - line drawings and photographs of Bo'ness docks, whaling ships, imported pit props at docks (9.10) shots of derelict docks area - Forth bridges in distance - Bo'ness street shot with watchmaker's shop - l/s Grangemouth refinery - shots of miners coming out of cage in Kinneil Colliery - talking head John McLaren about local politics - talking head SNP politician at docks - talking head Regional Councillor Charles Sneddon in his garden about history of local politics - talking heads group of SNP politicians and Charles Sneddon (12.10) shots of painters at work on shop-front - shots of woman and girl sewing costumes for Fair - shots of men hanging bunting in street - shots of Fair Queen Dawn Galloway having her dress fitted - shots of men building and preparing arches in gardens, including 'Royal Jubilee' arch (13.37) shots of party in Queen's house and display of dress - talking heads local schoolchildren criticising Fair (15.05) talking head Tam Dalyell and shots of him talking to local workers - talking head Dalyell about importance of Fair - shot of local children carrying model guardsmen - shots of brass band playing in local club and audience singing along, inter-cut with shots of woman sewing dress, workmen erecting street decorations, floats being prepared, beer kegs unloaded, young girl's dress being fitted, Queen's arch (17.46) families toast Queen Dawn in house - shots of fairground rides and stalls inter-cut with brass band playing behind bar in pub, Dawn having her hair washed in salon and procession of women in fancy dress entering house (19.28) brass band marching through archway - Dawn combing her hair - gvs of band taking refreshments in the street - shots of Queen Dawn and her parents leaving their house for the procession and getting into limousine - gvs procession of fairies and flower girls arriving on platform intercut with 1930s archive film of same - Maids of Honour form a floral arch for the Queen flanked by Girl Guides - shots of the Queen ascending to her throne - gvs of the crowd and Queen's Champion - shots of coronation ceremony inter-cut with 1930s footage and coronation of Elizabeth II - c/u shots of Queen Dawn (23.31) shots of Fair procession through town streets, brass band and floats - shots of Tam Dalyell and Charles Sneddon chatting - shots of floats passing and footage of 1930s procession - shots of Queen's Champion on horseback, fairies, crowded streets and crowds, Queen's float - c/u shot of Queen Dawn over high shot of town - more archive and current footage of procession - STV ident (26.53)