Tony Blackburn Wedding
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tony Blackburn Wedding. DESCRIPTION: Tony Blackburn, Radio One’s King of the Corny Joke, marries Tessa Wyatt at Caxton Hall. Apart from hundreds of cameramen and 500 fans, it was as Tony had hoped a ‘quiet wedding’. His wife has been in a number of films and BBC TV plays. SHOTLIST: GV crowds around entrance of Caxton Hall zoom into Tony Blackburn surrounded by photographers. SV press photographers pan to Blackburn. CU pearly queen blowing kiss. GV bride, actress Tessa Wyatt standing beside car and press. SV Tessa being photographed. SBV ditto zoom back to GV as she makes her way through crowd. SV pearly king and queen. SV Movietone cameraman on camera truck. CU woman with box camera. SV another Movietone cameraman. GV bride and groom on steps surrounded by crowds and press. SV crowds at entrance. SCU bride & groom being photographed.
- Keywords
- Social events; Marriages; Performing arts
- Locations
- London; Caxton Hall
- Card file number
- 97941
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Camera
- Reginald William Smith
- Length of story (in feet)
- 92
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How to cite this record
'Tony Blackburn Wedding', British Movietone News Issue No. 2231, 6 Mar 1972. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/29282 (Accessed 09 Jul 2025)