Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Victory Day

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
888
Date Released
10 Jun 1946
Date Other
Jun 1946
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Victory Day

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1 / 1
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Victory Parade - London. DESCRIPTION: Movietone is proud to present in two massive processions, mechanised and marching, the men and women whose part in victory made this day possible. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS (31ft) GV Boadicea Statue. Royal Family escorted by Household Cavalry leave Buckingham Palace, into camera. Ditto out of camera. CU people lining route. Arrival of Churchill and Attlee at Saluting Base, The Mall, in open landau. Attlee and Churchill alight, greeted by Army officer. Group - Lord Alanbrooke and Admiral Cunningham standing. Attlee and Churchill talking. Elevated shot of Whitehall, open landau along same carrying Royal Family, crowds line route. Turning into Admiralty Arch. Royal Family arrive at saluting base. King and Queen alight. Queen followed by King shakes hands with Mackenzie King and Field Marshal Smuts. Royal Family take places on dais. King and Queen kiss Queen Mary - Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra in shot. King and Queen shake hands with King Feisal of Iraq, his Regent and Princess Juliana. GV Royal Family standing on dais. Various shots of Scottish Irish Pipers marching up and down the Mall. MS pipers feet marching. Attlee and Churchill seated. MS pipers. CU Lord and Lady Mountbatten. MCU drummers, TS massed drummers. Mechanised column en route through East End. Crowds line route in East End, with ruins in background trucking shot. Trucking shot as mechanised columns pass over London Bridge, LS of Tower Bridge seen from column as it passes over London Bridge. Elevated shot Marble Arch, marching columns leaving. Trucking shot as marching columns approaches Parliament Square. Elevated shot of Trafalgar Square, shows mechanised column in fore. Marching column in background approaching Northumberland Avenue. Mechanised column passes through Admiralty Arch. Allied Commanders along the Mall in open cars. Monty in open car stands up at Saluting Base, salutes and sits down again. Cut-ins of King saluting, Queen by his side. Tanks pass Saluting Base. Chaffee tanks, cut-in Attlee. Attlee. Churchill, Mackenzie King and Smuts watch parade. Cromwell tanks, cut-in King and Queen. Churchill bridge laying tanks. CU Churchill. Land Army mechanism, cut-in Queen Mary. CU shots fire escapes, fire engines, cut-in Princess Elizabeth and Margaret. CU Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. London and provincial buses. King, Queen and Princess Elizabeth. War correspondents passing, panning shot of Jack Ramsden on top of truck. Mechanised column down Mall, into camera and out of camera. GV Nelson’s Column with formation of fighters passing overhead. Marching column headed by US contingent. King and Queen followed by Chinese, Danish and Greek contingents, cut-in Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, Norwegian, Australian and Colonial contingents. Cut-in of crowds. New Zealand, Indian contingents, cut-in King and Queen, Royal Navy, Royal Marines, WRNS, Brigade of Guards, cut-in King and Queen, Nurses, factory workers etc. Land Army girls, cut-in King and Queen, coal miners, industrial workers. Elevated shot of Trafalgar Square crammed with people. Elevated shot crowds pushing through crash barriers.
Keywords
Celebrations and festivals; Victory celebrations
Footage sources
Gaumont
Pathe
Card file number
47037
Credits:
Camera
David Prosser
Camera
Eddie Smales
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera
J. L. Ramsden
Camera
James Humphries
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Montague G. Benson
Camera
Norman Fisher
Camera
Walker
Camera
William G. Carrington
Length of story (in feet)
896
Story extras:
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