KINNEIL PUBLIC SCHOOL: Queen Helen Young
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Title: KINNEIL PUBLIC SCHOOL: Queen Helen Young
Reference number: 0404E
Date: 1934
Director: [filmed by Louis Dickson for the Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2 mins
Description:
Bo'ness Children's Fair Festival in 1934. Coronation of Queen Helen Young and fancy dress parade.
See also refs 0404A, 0404B, 0404C and 0404D.
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: title (0.10) Coronation and fancy dress parade. Festival Queen Helen Young and her retinue leave (2.37) Shots of crowds in streets as the procession passes and pan across group standing under decorated archway/gate (?) (3.01)