Learning on ScreenMovietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Royal Wedding
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- British Movietone News
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- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Royal Wedding - Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. DESCRIPTION: Movietone in common with every loyal subject of the King offers congratulations to HRH PRINCESS ELIZABETH and her bridegroom. SHOTLIST: TS Queen Victoria Memorial with crowd and troops marching round. GV crowd. MS crowds lining route (x3). TS crowd as children are handed over heads. CU crowd. CU the Duke of Edinburgh and the Marquess of Milford Haven out of Kensington Palace look at watch, decide it is too early and go back in. CU groom and bestman re-emerge past sweep and enter Daimler car. GV car drives off. TS car along. GV Household Cavalry (x2). GV coach with the Queen and Princess Margaret through Trafalgar Square. GV crowd. GV Irish State Coach out of Buckingham Palace pan with it as Princess Elizabeth waves. GV coach round QVM. MS bride in coach. TC coach, pan with coach past as the King seen at window. GV coach past. TS coach arrives at Westminster Abbey. TS King alights. MS bride alights (x2). GV coach at West Door. STILL PHOTOGRAPHS (x2) of interior of Westminster Abbey during wedding ceremony. GV choir singing 23rd Psalm. STILL of wedding. Pan roof of Abbey. STILL MS organist. CU register. GV & MS bride and groom towards down aisle. GV bride and groom followed by bridesmaids, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra lead bridesmaids. Pages are Prince Michael of Kent and Prince William of Gloucester. GV King and Queen’s procession down aisle including Queen Mary, Princess Andrew of Greece (Groom’s mother), King Haakon of Norway, King Michael of Romania, the Queen of the Hellenes and King of Iraq (x3). MS Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Marina and Duke of Kent. GV procession Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard, King Peter and Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Queen Helen of Romania, Prince Regent of Belgium, Duchess of Aosta. Crown Prince and Princess of Greece. MS Earl and Countess Mountbatten. MS Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevin in procession, Field Marshal Smuts, Herbert Morrison and Mr Mackenzie King. MS Winston and Mrs Churchill. GV exterior Abbey. MS bride and groom from Abbey and into glass coach (x3). 2 shots of coach away & 7 shots of coach travelling back to Buckingham Palace. MS Grand Entrance as bride alights. TS crowds rush for railings & GV ditto. TS crowd. MS bride and groom onto balcony followed by Princess Margaret. TS crowd. MS King and Queen and Queen Mary join them on balcony. TS crowd. CU girls in crowd waving and shouting. MS bride and groom leave balcony. GV interior wedding group. CU Princess Margaret. MS bridesmaid. CU Prince Michael. MS other bridesmaids. CU Prince William. CU bride and groom (x2), MS ditto. CU train of dress tilt up to bride and groom. GV The Mall. MS press on QVM. MS bride climbs into landau as rose petals are thrown over her. CU the Queen (x2). Elevated shot as landau drives out Palace and rounds QVM. GV passing along The Mall, the street lamps being on, rather dull, dusk falling. Carriage arrives at Waterloo Station, bridal pair alight, greeted by Chairman of Southern Railway, also shake hands with Sir Harold Scott. Commissioner of Police. Enter special railway carriage. MS of carriage. CU Royal Coat of Arms on front of train, train pulling out of platform, people wave and train out of station and camera, superimposed title fades in wishing them Long Life and Happiness etc. Princess’s dog was at Waterloo. Bridesmaids - Lady Mary Cambridge, Lady Caroline Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, Lady Elizabeth Lambert, Miss Diana Bowes-Lyon, Hon. Margaret Elphinstone.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Marriages
- Footage sources
- Gaumont
Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer
British Paramount
Pathe
Universal
- Card file number
- 49459
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Camera
- David W. Samuelson
- Camera
- Eddie Smales
- Camera
- Graham T. Thompson
- Camera
- Hilton Craig
- Camera
- Ian Duncan Struthers
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Camera
- Ronald Noble
- Length of story (in feet)
- 923
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