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Title: CUPAR CAVALCADE, FESTIVAL YEAR 1951

Reference number: 9854

Date: 1951

Director: filmed by A.H. Milne

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 35.15 mins

Description: Local events in and around Cupar in Festival of Britain year, including Highland games, a visit by Princess Elizabeth to RAF Leuchars and shots of author David Walker.

Credits: produced and photographed by A.H. Milne

Shotlist: Cupar Cavalcade, Festival Year 1951, produced and photographed by A.H. Milne; signpost “Royal Burgh of Cupar”; group of workmen erecting and painting a flagpole in a park; children playing in a paddling pool, Highland Pipe Band marching alongside a crowd in a park; scenes at an outdoor bowling venue; [damaged section for approx. 20-30ft @ 144ft point]; group of people seeing off a group of young people who head off on a bus trip; group of men in a rural area posing for the camera, walking over hill, glen, field, heading into Commercial Hotel; good scenes of workers building a dry stone wall; shot of title page of a book “Geordie, by David Walker”, shot of the author working on his writing in a garden, stillshot of book cover “David Walker, the Storm and the Silence”; wedding party at a kirk, posing for the camera, guests leaving the kirk; Air Force on parade at RAF Leuchars to salute Princess Elizabeth arriving on a plane, she inspects a guard of honour; close-up of the aircraft with signage: “G VI R, the King’s Flight”; sign at airport: “no. 43 Fighter Squadron”, panning shot of a row of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft; scene of a crowd outside Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh cheering Princess Elizabeth off in a motorcade; Provost giving a speech to a small crowd in a village setting, elderly woman cutting a ribbon at the entrance to a park area; shot of a collection of model aircraft; hockey team playing, rugby team posing for camera; children standing outside an infant school, posing for camera on playground, filing off in a walking line, at attention in the classroom; wedding party at a kirk; Highland games: speeches, table covered in saltire with trophies on tabletop, shot put, running, highland dancing, cycle racing, bar-gymnastics, long jump, hammer throw, gymnastics, caber-tossing, pipe playing competition, pipe band display, winners posing with their trophies;