PENICUIK CHILDREN'S GALA DAY 1953
Full length video
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Title: PENICUIK CHILDREN'S GALA DAY 1953
Reference number: 1368
Date: 1953
Sponsor: [ Playhouse Cinema, Penicuik]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 8.48 mins
Description:
Penicuik Children's Gala Day with shots of the Gala Queen's coronation and the procession through the streets with accompanying pipes and drums, floats, horses and riders.
Shotlist: [No credits] General views sports gathering in public park, races, tug-of-war, etc. Shots of spectators (1.26); Punch and Judy show. Shots of children in audience, slow pan (1.55); Spectators (2.31); Gala Queen and retinue walk into park (2.38); Display of Scottish country dancing (2.47); Crowd (2.56); - blank- (3.00); [title] Penicuik Children's Gala Day 1953 (3.16); - blank - (3.21); Open air stage in town centre. Gala Queen and retinue arrive. Crowning of the Gala Queen. General views of crowds and participants (5.52); Crowd lining town streets (6.04); Pipes and drums lead procession of horses and riders, Gala Queen in car, brass band, children etc, decorated floats (7.57); Children's sports, races, spectators (8.48)