Children’s Film Foundation Premiere

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2500
Date Released
1 May 1977
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Children’s Film Foundation Premiere. DESCRIPTION: At the Odeon Cinema, youthful stars attend the daytime Premiere of the Children’s films ‘Fern, The Red Deer’ and ‘The Glitterball’. They also met Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Kent who is Patron of the Association. Present, too, were top executives of the Film Industry who support the Foundation in their endeavours to bring family films to the cinema. SHOTLIST: GV Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square. CU name ‘Odeon’. CU Children’s Film Foundation posters. CU ditto. SV children entering cinema. SV Candida Prior and family. CU Candida Prior smiling. SV group of children in foyer. SV Craig McFarlane and family. CU Craig McFarlane. SV Ed Chilton (Rank) arriving. CU Sir John Davis in foyer. SV Percy Livingstone and family arriving. CU a producer of CFF. GV guests in foyer. SV Bruce Forsyth with guests. SV Duchess of Kent arrives in foyer and shakes hands with Sir John Davis. CU CFF poster. SC Duchess of Kent shakes hands with Craig McFarlane. SV Duchess of Kent talking to young people. CU CFF poster. SV Duchess of Kent walks into cinema.
Keywords
Royalty; Entertainment and leisure
Locations
London; Leicester Square
Card file number
77/75
Credits:
Camera
Denis White
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Length of story (in feet)
93
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Children’s Film Foundation Premiere', British Movietone News Issue No. 2500, 1 May 1977. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/30979 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)