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Title: CORONATION OF THE GALA QUEEN / Davidson's Mains Public Park

Reference number: 5857

Date: 1951

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.17 mins

Description: Two films, one showing scenes of the crowing of the 1951 Gala Queen, a children's ceremony in Davidson's Mains, a suburb to the north west of Edinburgh, the second film show a race day at South Queensferry Harbour circa 1950.

Shotlist: Crammond Association, Coronation of the Gala Queen, Davidson's Mains Public Park, Monday 23rd. June 1951 at a Quarter to Three gvs. of marches, including pipe band, boy scouts, girl guides, brownies and younger children (0.35) gvs of crowd lining the street (.40) shot of Gala Queen in open topped car (0.48) gvs of coronation ceremony (2.12) Young boy reads an announcement from a scroll, accompanied by heraldic bugle players (2.23) birds (doves?) are released from a basket (2.34) Queen and attendants walk amongst the crowds (3.01) Queen watches as young children dressed as rabbits dance (3.10) gvs of crowds at funfair (3.26) shots of highland dancers on stage (3.31) shots of coconut shy (3.38) children on pony rides (3.46) gvs of crowds (3.53) shots of young children's dance performance (4.10) boys run races (4.13) shot of children in horse drawn cart (4.15) gvs of crowds (4.25) girls race (4.26) gvs of children on fairground rides including swing ride and merry-go-round (5.02) gvs of crowds, family groups picnicking (5.51) gvs of small rowing boats racing at South Queensferry with Forth rail bridge in background (5.58) gvs of crowd watching from harbour side (6.21) divers swim from boat to boat watched by crowd (7.16) games are played on poles overhanging the water (7.29) crowds walk past 'Old Quay Head Amateur Rowing Club' sign , gvs of crowds (8.38) shot of harbour, firth of Forth and Forth (8.43) gvs of crowd watching presentation of prizes (9.00) pan of winning team, with young boy holding the cup (9.17)