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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)