News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Cinegazette

Issue

Issue No.

13

Date Released

1953

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Children’s Coronation

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

NoS synopsis: The transport services made it possible for millions of people to participate in Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation, and this film reveals a little known aspect of their work on that day. As a result of collaboration between London Transport, British Railways and the L.C.C., 30,000 schoolchildren from 1,700 schools in London and the Home Counties were brought to the Victoria Embankment to witness the passing of the Queen’s Procession on its way to the Abbey.

Keywords

Royalty; Celebrations and festivals; Road transport

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
British Transport Films website   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.8 No.97 November 1954, p541.

Credits:

Production Co.

British Transport Films

Sponsor

London Transport Executive

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

London’s Transport Museum

Email

simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk

Web

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk

Phone

020 7379 6344

Fax

020 7565 7254

Address

39 Wellington Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 7BB

Series held

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Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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