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Title: CORONATION CELEBRATIONS IN HELMSDALE AND GOLSPIE

Reference number: 5732

Date: 1937

Director: [filmed by Patrick James Mitchell]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.10 mins

Description: Social events and celebrations for the Coronation of King George VI, in Golspie and Helmsdale.

Shotlist: [shotlist timings from speed corrected tape at 16fps, manual control track]

[COL] gvs of men in navy uniform, soldiers in kilts and men in suits lined up outside drill hall (0.21) Who asked you to poke your head in? gvs of group of soldiers (0.34) gvs of mothers and children sitting in field with tea and buns (1.14) What the W.R.I like to see gvs of tea party/picnic (1.24) Coronation Shield gvs of shield on table (1.33) gvs of children running races on football pitch, obstacle races and sack races (2.33) Mind he doesn't bite you Billy (1.42) gvs of a pillow fight between two men (3.02) Bonfire gvs of bonfire on a cliff (4.05) [B&W] Golspie fancy dress parade (2.43) gvs of parade marching through the main street with the locals dressed in various fancy costumes (4.29 Helmsdale fancy dress parade gvs of posters advertising the fancy dress parade (5.13) gvs of two children leading the procession on ponies followed by carts, floats and a pipe band (6.08) Some pretty nurses!!! gvs same, followed by gvs of the remainder of the parade led by the Helmsdale hospital float and a penny farthing (6.40) Mr Hardy gvs of man with false beard and nurses collecting for charity (6.59) The Doc has been busy gvs of parade including a doctor and nurses, a penny farthing and various floats with locals in fancy dress (8.04) Girls wouldn't you like legs like this gvs of parade (8.17) A thrush gathering food and feeding young gvs of thrush gathering food (9.11) A blue tit feeding gvs same (9.42) Bees swarming gvs same (10.10) Hill sheep gvs of farmer with his sheep (10.16) Rough seas gvs of high waves crashing against a harbour wall (13.10)