BO'NESS ACADEMY 1932: Queen Helen Burnett
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Title: BO'NESS ACADEMY 1932: Queen Helen Burnett
Reference number: 0404C
Date: 1932
Director: [filmed by Louis Dickson]
Sponsor: [ Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.00 mins
Description:
Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival in 1932, coronation of Queen Helen Burnett and fancy dress parade.
See also refs 0404A, 0404B, 0404D and 0404E.
Very comprehensive website about the Bo'Ness Fair can be found at at http://www.thefairday.com/ [last accessed 12/2/2018]
In April 2009, the Hippodrome reopened as a working cinema - see http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/hippodrome/ for further information. You can also find out about the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival which is held there annually: http://www.hippfest.co.uk
Shotlist: No credits. Queen arrives and is crowned, greets fancy dress parade and leaves, preceded by parade, through town streets in her coach. Group, possibly staff, outside cinema (2.15)