Romany festival at Baildon in Yorkshire (1929)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Video Roll Title: Gypsy Party at Baildon Good shots of Romany fair at Baildon in Yorkshire, including procession with traditional horse drawn caravans. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Romany tribes celebrate around huge fire and steaming cauldron at Baildon, Yorkshire The Romany fair in progress / Caravans among crowd / Band processing through street decorated in bunting / Large cauldron being sampled / Community leaders in ceremonial costume shaking hands / Parade through street, procession carrying placard reading ’Old Bill’s Tribe’, horse-drawn caravans / More shaking of hands by gypsy leaders / Women in traditional gypsy costume including headscarfs decorated with coins / Aerial view of crowd at festival / More of cauldron celebrations, with those in traditional costume receiving a cup of brew from the cauldron / More of process
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