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Govan a village at least as old as Glasgow became part of the city in 1912. Govan was and still is a shipbuilding area.
On the first Friday in June a ram’s head traditional symbol of the hand loom weavers is paraded round the district. This film made for and by a cinema shows the parade of 1947 - featuring of course the local cinema.
Nights out at to the Cinema were massively important in a city with such overcrowded homes and such a poor climate.
Old Govan Fair
- Date: 1952, June
- Director: unknown
- * Ref No: 0053 *
- Genre: local topical
- Film For Hire: No
- Video For Sale: No
- Sound: silent
- Running Time: 7 mins
- Fiction: Non-Fiction
- Colour: bw
- Original Format: 35mm
- Sponsor: sp. Vogue Cinema, Govan Production Company: p.c. Elder Film Productions
- Additional Information: Official ceremonial opening of Old Govan Fair, Glasgow. Coronation of the Fair Queen by Mrs Singleton, wife of George, the director of the Vogue Cinema.
- Local cinema topical made for the Vogue Cinema. Found in cinema by Ronald Singleton.
Progress Report
Shotlist
No credits. Official ceremonial opening of old Govan Fair, June 1952, and crowning of Sheila Leslie as the Queen by Mrs. Ronald V. Singleton, wife of the Director of the Vogue Cinema in Govan, Glasgow (1.20); The procession marshalls. Street scenes of crowds as they wait for the procession of floats to pass (7.02)