DUMFRIES - GUID NYCHBURRIS DAY

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Places:

  • Dumfriesshire

Subjects:

  • Celebrations, traditions and customs
  • Celts and celtic culture
  • Ceremonies

Genres:

  • Local topical

Decade:

  • 1950s

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Title: DUMFRIES - GUID NYCHBURRIS DAY

Reference number: 0454B

Date: 1951*

Sponsor: Lyceum Cinema, Dumfries

Sound: mute

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.30 mins

Description: Coverage of the Guid Nychburris Day celebrations in Dumfries.

One of several local topical films made for local exhibitors of the tradition revived in the 1930’s of the Guid Nychburris Day festival.

Shotlist: No credits. Shots of celebrations at Mercat Cross; Provost leads three cheers and places a sash on a young woman standing next to him (0.14) procession led by town council officials and principle charcters; m/s crowd and stragglers filing into churchyard (0.55); Unveiling of plaque commemorating the Monastery of the Grey Friars where Robert the Bruce slew the Red Comyn; shots of crowd applauding (1.16) ms procession of officials and cornet's party pass camera; pan over dispersing crowd (1.31)