Trafalgar Day Ceremonies

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2160
Date Released
26 Oct 1970
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Trafalgar Day Ceremonies. DESCRIPTION: A service aboard the flagship Victory commemorates Nelson’s great defeat of the French Fleet at Trafalgar in eighteen hundred and five. In Cowes, a keel-laying ceremony for the Sea Cadet Corps’ new sail training ship Royalist. She’ll be the first fully square rigged vessel built in Britain since 1906. SHOTLIST: GV pan HMS Victory. GV rows of cannons on ditto. SV ditto. GV pan sailors lined up on deck. Angle shot pan up as flag is hoisted. SV officers salute. Angle shot flags flying. SV Admiral lays wreath. CU wreath. GV sailors lined on deck. SCU ratings looking up. Angle shot flags flying. GV masts and flags. GV HMS Victory. Angle shot laying first steel plating for TS Royalist. SCU sign giving details of TS Royalist. TV pan ceremony about to take place. SV pan down Mrs Veronica Scott about to make first weld. SCU welding. SV officer looks on. SCU welding pan up to Mrs Scott as she finished. 3 shots young ratings cheer. SCU portrait of finished TS Royalist.
Keywords
Commemorations; Organisations; Ships and boats; Weapons; Ceremonies; Navy; Military; History and archaeology; Youth
Locations
Portsmouth; United Kingdom; Cowes
Card file number
96476
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
117
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Trafalgar Day Ceremonies', British Movietone News Issue No. 2160, 26 Oct 1970. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/28543 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)