Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Royal Agriculture
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Agriculture. DESCRIPTION: On the King’s country estate at Sandringham every acre is being used to grow crops. The King, Queen and the two Princesses take a trip round the estate to see how the crops are coming along. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Aerial shot (pan) of English cornfields. GS of Haystack with horse being led past. GS of back garden shows woman picking tomatoes. LS of field with farm workers making haystack. GS of Sandringham Castle & pan of grounds shows how they have been tilled. King & Princess Margaret standing by some corn, inspecting ears of same. GS of flower beds of Sandringham, & mix to beet etc. GS of King, Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret riding bicycles, various angle shots, Queen riding on governess cart. GS of Royal as above. LS of Royal Family & Ministry of Agriculture reps. walking into camera, ploughed field, in the group can be seen Donald McCullough. CU McCullough & pan to Princesses. CU Margaret. CU King, Elizabeth walks over to farm horse, leads it away. Gs of land girl tilling ground, also another gathering in the harvest. CU Elizabeth & CU Margaret. Elizabeth climbing onto Massey Harris tractor on which she has a ride, shot of Elizabeth & Margaret getting off. CU Queen talking (silent) to farm workers, also various shots of her talking to little children. Tractor ploughing field. GS of land girls & farm workers making haystack. CU King. GS of Royal Family walking into camera to finish. Land Army Girls sheep shearing.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Agriculture; Newspapers; Animals; Scenery and travel
- Locations
- Sandringham
- Footage sources
- British Paramount
- Card file number
- 43909
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 240
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