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Title: LEITH PAGEANT, the

Reference number: 5876

Date: 1958

Sponsor: Leith Region Old People's Welfare Council

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20.53 mins

Description: Presented by the Leith Region Old People's Welfare Council, this film records the floats, costumes and crowds of the Leith pageant of 1958.

Shotlist: Leith Region Old People's Welfare Council Presents, The Leith Pageant 1958, Floats at Leith Links, gvs of children and adults in fancy dress on decorated floats (2.06), The Pageant at Easter Road, gvs of floats and pipe bands marching along Easter road (3.06) Taylor Gardens, gvs of crowds at the gardens (4.01) Newhaven Road, gvs of procession including pipe bands, floats for Crawford's biscuits, Boys Brigade band and numerous local businesses' floats (6.14) Newhaven, gvs of procession (7.23) The End - And A Beginning, gvs of crowds at dockside watching a boat arrive carrying people dressed in Elizabethan costume. "Queen Elizabeth I" is greeted by similarly costumed dignitaries then greets the crowds (10.22) the "royal" procession continues in horse drawn carriage (10.38) gvs of children playing on Billy Smart's circus engine (10.47) gvs of crowds and stationary floats, shown in more detail (13.23) gvs of crowd lined streets watching the procession (18.31) gvs of procession as it moves to the dockside (20.53)