PHILPSTOUN GALA DAY 1951
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Title: PHILPSTOUN GALA DAY 1951
Reference number: 3586
Date: 1951, June 9
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 12.51 mins
Description: The Philpstoun and district thirty-fifth annual Gala Day held in The Hall Park, Philpstoun, Saturday, 9th June, 1951.
Shotlist:
[shotliste retimed from speed corrected tape, manual control track]
c/u poster reading "Philpstoun Oil Works Recreation Club. The Philpstoun & District Thirty-Fifth Annual Gala Day and Seventh Coronation of Queen Ceremony will be held in The Hall Park, Philpstoun, Saturday, 9th June, 1951" (0.11) procession of Gala Queen and her retinue and brass band, watched by crowd lining streets decorated with bunting (3.41) 'de-coronation' (?) ceremony, followed by the crowning ceremony of "Queen Helen". Speeches. gvs huge crowds (9.57) int. shots of the Gala Queen cutting the cake (10.26) shots of sports events, highland dancing, children dancing round the maypole [includes a very brief shot of a policeman moving small child into a fenced area for safety] (12.08) night shots of fairground [brief] (12.21) children eating ice cream The End (12.51)