Royal Start for Bif
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 7
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Start for Bif. DESCRIPTION: The British Industries Fair - Castle Bromwich division - is bigger than last year and, its reported even better. London, as usual, has two BIF shop windows, one of which is at Olympia. The other, at Earls Court, was visited by Queen Mary with other members of her family and later Their Majesties and Princess Margaret. SHOTLIST: KS Exterior view of BIF Castle Bromwich - Exterior shots of mechanical gadgets, "The Moke". Another gadget for pushing trucks. . LONDON - OLYMPIA: Mole-Richardson studio equipment stand. Various shots of atomic pile, similar to that of Harwell. MS of rotary printer. EARLS COURT: Full scale large rotary printer, Arabs inspecting same. Foreigners from Oregon walk around. China stand. Various shots of glass stand, includes glass "roundabout" & glass spring. King, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, Duchess of Kent, Princess Royal walk round inspecting various stands. Also present was the Duchess of Gloucester. King, Queen & Princess Margaret inspect stands. GOOD SCENES: Various shots of cigarette making machine being operated. MS Mole Richardson stand. MS Atomic Pile model, several.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Exhibitions and shows
- Locations
- London; Castle Bromwich
- Card file number
- 53700
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- David W. Samuelson
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 221
-
Film clip
• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- AP Archive
- info@aparchive.com
- Web
- http://www.movietone.com
- Phone
- +44 (0)20 7482 7482
- Series held
- View all series held by AP Archive