Learning on ScreenQueen Alexandra
Series
- Series Name
- Topical Budget
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Summary
- [1ST SUBTITLE]: "Nation’s tribute of tears as the beloved lady passes to her rest. The sad little cortege leaves Sandringham." The coffin on a gun-carriage, followed by King George V, the Prince of Wales and the other chief mourners are seen leaving the grounds. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "In London the people crowned her death with their grief and the heavens sent her a white shroud". The funeral procession passing through snowy streets. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Four monarchs followed the gun carriage: King George, King of Norway, King of Denmark, King of the Belgians". Shots of the chief mourner and the funeral procession. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "Whitehall: Through an avenue of sorrowing friends". Procession passes down Whitehall. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "At the Abbey". The coffin entering Westminster Abbey. [6TH SUBTITLE]: "The endless queue of homage". People passing into the Abbey.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Buildings and structures; Weather; Funerals
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Charles F. T. Heath
- Camera
- Frank W. Purnell
- Camera
- George Plowman
- Camera
- Harold G. Jones
- Camera
- Montague G. Benson
- Camera
- Norton Gardner
- Length of story (in feet)
- 216
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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- 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).
- Series held
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