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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Festival of Youth

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
892A
Date Released
11 Jul 1946
Date submitted
9 Jul 1946
Date submitted
8 Jul 1946
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Cairo Citadel Handed Over
  2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: America’s Wimbledon
  3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Festival of Youth
  4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Royal Henley
  5. *Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Leeds Children’s Day

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: National Festival of Youth. DESCRIPTION: The Duchess of Kent was at Wembley to watch the Festival of Youth. SHOTLIST: KS elevated shot of parade. Duchess of Kent arrives, walks onto dais, child presents bouquet of flowers to her. Various shots of marchpast, consisting of girls in physical training dress, nurses, girls riding ponies, elevated shot of marchpast. Elevated shot of PT display in centre of stadium, also boxing, netball, football, dribbling etc. Girls giving PT display, sailors doing hornpipe. CU of their feet. Army & RAF PT display. Elevated shot of everybody forming up to make the letters UN (United Nations). SV-CU of Duchess of Kent, cut-ins.
Keywords
Royalty; Children; Celebrations and festivals; Youth
Locations
London; England; Wembley
Card file number
47177
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Smith [2]
Camera
William G. Carrington
Length of story (in feet)
170
Story extras:

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