The King of Jordan

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

613

Date Released

22 Sep 1966

Date recorded

20 May 1966

Length of issue (in feet)

761

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The King of Jordan

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: We start off in the desert with the Bedouin Army’s Camel Corps looking like scenes from "Lawrence of Arabia" and, with some of these Bedouins on guard duty we go from there to the Royal Palace at Amman to live a day in the life of the King. In the royal motorcade we go with His Majesty King Hussein on a galvanising tour of his desert country. With him we go to see the camel races and on to Aquabar to see him streak across the Red Sea on water-skis. Then back to the relentless motorcade as he continues his endless tour of a country that is fighting for a prosperous place in the twentieth century world of speed and speed [sic] and change.

Keywords

Royalty

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

701

Story extras:

Film clip

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