LANIMER DAY, LANARK
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Title: LANIMER DAY, LANARK
Reference number: 0088
Date: 1954
Director: [filmed by Stanley Russell]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6 mins
Description: The procession of floats through Lanark, coronation of Lanimer Queen, and Standard Bearer John Glaister Jr, Lord Cornet. 10th June, 1954.
Credits: [Made for local cinema owned by the Singletons]
Shotlist: Credits (.05) [B&W] Shot of Lanimer Queen and attendants (.11) This year's Lanimer Queen Elect is Miss Isabel Bryson of Kirkfieldbank School. Lanimer Queen gets into car watched by crowds (.38) Gvs pipes and drums and cavalcade of cars escorting Lanimer Queen's\ car (.52) John Glaister Jnr, carrying Standard, is this year's Lord Cornet. Gvs Cornet and men leading procession watched by spectators. Shot up Lanark's High Street as civic officials and others follow carrying the "birks" (1.31) Gvs floats procession (3.37) Lanimer Queen's car arrives, former Lord Cornets watch (4.07) Medium shot crowds and participants (4.44) Lanimer Queen is crowned by former Lanimer Queen Mrs Richard Findlater of Jerviswood, Lanark. [Col] Shots of coronation ceremony (5.48)