DUMFRIES 1936 - GUID NYCHBURRIS FESTIVAL
Full length video
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Title: DUMFRIES 1936 - GUID NYCHBURRIS FESTIVAL
Reference number: 0172
Date: 1936
Sponsor: ABC Cinema, Dumfries
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 8.30 mins
Description:
The Installation ceremony of the Cornet, the Investiture of Queen of the South, Midsteeple Ceremony and Fancy Dress competition at the annual Dumfries festival. [Incomplete]
One of several local topical films made for local exhibitors of the tradition revived in the 1930’s of the Guid Nychburris Day festival.
Please note there is a discrepancy in the running time on the catalogue record and the digitised viewing copy as the shotlist was originally timed at 18fps.
Credits: Special Infirmary Event
Shotlist: Credits (.15) Installation of Cornet, Roy MacGregor, and Investiture of Queen of the South, Annie Wells. Shots of crowds at the Midsteeple and the ceremony and speech (1.12) Cornet and followers (1.43) Thursday Midsteeple Ceremony, Historical and Fancy Dress Procession parade through streets and the centre of Coronation of Queen and shots of crowd and platform party. Floats procession, including Nursery Stories and Burns Tableaux (7.23) [Incomplete]