TAYPORT TOWN HALL OPENING
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Title: TAYPORT TOWN HALL OPENING
Reference number: 2299
Date: 1950
Director: [filmed by R. Robertson]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bwcol
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.20 mins
Description:
The opening ceremony of Tayport Town Hall and the crowning of the Gala Queen.
See also refs. 2289, 2290, 2291, 2292, 2294, 2295, 2300, 2301, 2204, 2307].
For further information about Tayport, including photographs from this period of Tayport's history, visit: http://www.tayport.org.uk [last accessed 17/2/2009]
Shotlist: Credits (0.03); Tayport Town Hall opening ceremony 26 April 1950. Crowds outside (0.17); Provost Wilkie turns the key. Shots of same. Interior shots of speeches (0.35); Guests leave (0.54); Hall Committee and Town Council members. Shots of same (1.25); [Col.] Crowning of Gala Queen 7 July 1951. Shots of ceremony (3.00); Poster advertising Tayport Sports Day, 14 July 1951, East Common. Gala Queen opens the sports; General views of men and women's races involving running and cycling; Highland dancing competition; gymnastics; high jump.(4.20).