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Title: STROMNESS SHOPPING WEEK / ORKNEY THROUGH THE AGES / FINSTOWN FANCY DRESS PARADE / KIRKWALL WELCOMES THE QUEEN

Reference number: 7492

Date: 1959* / 1960

Production company: Lighthouse productions

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.12 mins

Description: Fancy Dress and parades at Stromness Shopping Week and Finstown Fancy Dress Parade in Orkney. Also Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visiting Kirkwall, 1960.

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(00.00) title & credits (animated) - Stromness Shopping Week. Street scenes with decorated arch and banner 'Welcome to Stromness'. Sailing ship 'Prince Louis, Inverness' at Stromness harbour. (0.48) L/s of the St Ola at Stromness harbour. Gvs over Stromness. Stromness streets decorated for Shopping Week. (01.26) Fancy Dress Parade. C/u of the floats in the parade and people in fancy dress. Shots of crowds watching parade (02.53) Orkney through the ages. Float parade to show Orkney from the Stone Age to modern age (04.04) At last we proudly present...the film of the year...in glorious Agfacolor...with a cast of hundreds...on the giant small screen...Finstown Fancy Dress Parade. Adults and children in costume parading in street led by pipe band. C/u of some of the entrants in costume. (06.39) Kirkwall Welcomes The Queen. 12 August 1960. Kirkwall streets decorated with flags. The Queen and Duke visit the Cathedral. Gvs of the crowd and children waving Union flags as Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive at St Magnus Cathedral. Queen and Duke are greeted by Provost Scott and pose for photographs outside Cathedral. shots of photographers and television camera. shots of girls youth group (Guides?) gathered outside Cathedral (09.22) After lunch. Gvs of crowds gathered at Kirkwall harbour as the Royal couple board the Royal Yacht motor boat. Back to Britannia. Military bands at harbour. Crowd waves goodbye as boat leaves harbour and heads towards Royal Yacht Britannia. Shots of Britannia sailing away (11.16) In the Garden. C/u of a variety of seasonal flowers in a garden (15.12).