Made by Leeds photographer Charles Pickard, this film documents a fancy dress parade at Plas-y-Coed Hotel in Colwyn Bay, Wales.  The film includes extensive intertitles which describe the film’s content.  TITLE: COLWYN BAY. CHRISTMAS, 1930. FANCY DRESS PARADE AT PLAS-Y-COED HOTEL. TITLE: THE LADIES’ FIRST PRIZE COSTUME HEADS THE PROCESSION – MARY STUART. The lady dressed as Mary Stuart leads a line of women towards the camera. TITLE: PICK THEM OUT FOR YOURSELVES AND More women in costume...

Made by Leeds photographer Charles Pickard, this film documents a fancy dress parade at Plas-y-Coed Hotel in Colwyn Bay, Wales.  The film includes extensive intertitles which describe the film’s content.  TITLE: COLWYN BAY. CHRISTMAS, 1930. FANCY DRESS PARADE AT PLAS-Y-COED HOTEL. TITLE: THE LADIES’ FIRST PRIZE COSTUME HEADS THE PROCESSION – MARY STUART. The lady dressed as Mary Stuart leads a line of women towards the camera. TITLE: PICK THEM OUT FOR YOURSELVES AND More women in costume file towards the camera. TITLE: DON’T ALL SPEAK AT ONCE. Women continue to approach the camera in a line. TITLE: LADIES FROM EVERY CLIME. The fancy dress parade continues. TITLE: NOW, ELIZA, PICK ‘EM UP! A woman drops and grabs something repeatedly. TITLE: BEWARE OF THE TOMAHAWK! A person dressed as a Native American carries a weapon. TITLE: AH! HERE COMES FATHER CHISTMAS. GIVE HIM A CHEER. More people in fancy dress join the line, including Father Christmas. TITLE: NOW TEDDY THYKETH. LOOK ALIVE! The costume procession continues. TITLE: THE FARMER AND HIS PET SCARECROW. A man is dressed as a farmer with a scarecrow dummy attached to him. TITLE: THE GENTLEMEN’S FIRST PRIZE COSTUME. THE IMPERIAL COSSACK. The man dressed as the Cossack emerges along with other people in fancy dress. TITLE: NOW THE OTHER VISITORS GET THEIR TURN. People walk towards the camera in normal 1930s period clothes. TITLE: HOW SHY THEY ARE. AND HOW SERIOUS THEY LOOK. The men walk past the camera. TITLE: PLASY IS NOTHING WITHOUT MR DAVIES TITLE: DAVID AND HIS SWEETHEART. SEE HOW SHE TAKES THE LEAD ALREADY. More people in normal clothes walk near the camera. TITLE: MA KEEPS AN EYE ON HER BOY People continue to walk towards the camera. TITLE: POOR MRS. SYKES TORE HER PRETTY PAPER FROCK SO COULDN’T BE AMONGST THE SWELLS. More people continue the line towards the filmmaker. TITLE: WHY DOESN’T MR. SYKES WALK WITH HIS OWN WIFE? The seemingly never ending line of people continues towards the camera. TITLE: THE EVERGREEN AND EVER-LOVED GRANNY GREENHALGH. An old lady is seen walking in the line. TITLE: THE SHY AND THE HIGH PEOPLE Another shot of the line walking towards the filmmaker. TITLE: AND, JUST TO FINISH UP. A VERY SHORT PEEP AT OUR OLD FRIENDS, MR. AND MRS. KEWISH. There is a final shot of people walking towards the camera. TITLE: THE END