News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1242

Date Released

23 Mar 1953

Date Other

Mar 1953

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Queen Mother Presents Queen’s Colour
• 2. Duke of Edinburgh in Germany
• 3. President Tito’s Tour
• 4. Calcutta Cup - England V Scotland
• 5. FA Cup Semi-Finals
• 6. FA Cup Semi-Finals
• *Long Length Of: Queen Mother Presents Queen’s Colour
• *Verona’s Horse Fair

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Queen Mother Presents ‘Queens’ Colour to Navy - Plymouth. SHOTLIST: Cut story - LS Navy on parade. Queen Mother walks from dais to kneeling officer and presents the colours to him. Queen Mother’s speech (sound). LS parade. Queen Mother takes salute at marchpast. CU of the colour as it passes dais. Little boy dressed as sailor marches smartly up to QM presents flowers, salutes and marches smartly away.

Local distribution only

Scotland only instead of item 1.

Keywords

Royalty; Children; Ceremonies; Navy; Military

Footage sources

Gaumont British

Card file number

58750

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

149

Story extras:

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