Queen Mary - Nation Pays Last Homage
Series
- Series Name
- British Paramount News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- Many thousands line route taken by mile-long procession from Marlborough House to Westminster Hall. Her Majesty and other members of Royal Family attend service in historic Hall. Between 3pm and midnight 40,000 people file past catafalque, queues at one time stretching more than one mile along Embankment.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Social events; Funerals; Religion and belief
- Locations
- London; Westminster Hall; Marlborough House
- Footage sources
- British Movietone News
British Pathe
Gaumont British
- Library number
- 21270
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- Arthur W. Farmer
- Camera
- Edward Henry Hawkins
- Camera
- James F. Gemmell
- Camera
- Len W. Dudley
- Camera
- Ralph Cathles
- Camera
- Ronald L. Read
- Length of story (in feet)
- 611
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Production Documents
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Film Archive
- Name
- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
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- 124 Horseferry Road,
London
SW1P 2TX - Notes
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How to cite this record
'Queen Mary - Nation Pays Last Homage', British Paramount News Issue No. 2305, 2 Apr 1953. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/44325 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)