Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: 1947 and After

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Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
969
Date Released
29 Dec 1947
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  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: 1947 and After

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Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Review of the Year 1947. DESCRIPTION: A look back at 1947 with its gloom of the economic crisis and the harsh winter weather. The sunshine moments of the Royal Tour of South Africa and the delight of the Royal Wedding. SHOTLIST: KS ‘1947 and After’ title, snow effect on lettering. SCU calendar, hand turning over the days. Royal Family on bridge of HMS Vanguard. LS Table Mountain in background. Capetown in fore. Several shots of Royal Family’s drive through streets of Capetown. Crowds cheering. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret ride ponies on beach in South Africa. Tribesmen on horseback ride in their thousands across rough country. Royal Family seated on dais. Natives perform before them, rush towards the dais. Royal Family walk towards Viking aircraft. Queen and Princess Elizabeth enter plane. Viking takes off. GV Royal Family looking at Victoria Falls. TS (from top of Table Mountain) of Capetown. Cut-in Royal Family with Field Marshal Smuts. MS Smuts with King. Vanguard pulls away from Capetown. GV battleship Vanguard. Family group shot including Lt Philip Mountbatten (Duke of Edinburgh). GV Westminster Abbey Towers. Royal couple in coach leave Abbey. Elevated shot of procession as it passes through streets. Royal couple’s carriage enters Buckingham Palace forecourt. Princess Elizabeth alights from carriage. Posed shot of Royal couple, in wedding dress. Lord Mountbatten (in civvy clothing) with Pandit Nehru. Indian civilians carry corpse on stretcher. MS corpses on ground. Several shots Indian refugees in rain. Refugees take shelter under trees, bullock carts etc. from rain. Gandhi alights from carriage. Gandhi walks through corridor of Government House. Gandhi walks in grounds with Lord and Lady Mountbatten. British troops fix barbed wire in streets of Palestine. Several shots of wrecked buildings. Troops sort amongst ruins. Exterior shot (America) of United Nations building. Interior - meeting in progress. UK delegate and several GVs Bidault takes his seat. MS Molotov seated at his place. Vyshinsky addresses (gesturing) meeting. SCU of same. MS Gromyko speaking. Elevated shot of French crowds cheering etc. de Gaulle walks onto platform, acknowledging crowds. French posters on voting, in streets. French casting their votes (interior). French strikes, processions through streets. Gendarmes mingle with crowds, dispersing same. King George of Greece walks through Greek crowds towards camera. Several shots of Greek troops on lorries. Greek troops on horseback along country track. Refugees carrying NoSles. MS Mikolajczyk walks from house into garden. Slip pan. John Cobb climbs into car. Car at speed (left to right). Sir Malcolm Campbell climbs into boat on Lake Coniston. MS boat on trial tests, snaking and porposing. Skystreak US jet plane takes off. Over course at record speed and into and over camera. London - people at coal yard collecting sacks of coal. Dials inside power station. Miss Clifford and M Benson work under candle light. Posters indicating power cuts. Hospital wards in darkness. Workers leave factory gate. Snow covered countryside shows snow along telegraph wires (very good). GV snow capped countryside. MS dead sheep being carried by farmer. Clearing railway lines of snow, several shots. Various shots of floods, on rails, roads, houses, floods in Fen District. Poster - Monetary Meeting. Hugh Dalton stands to speak. Dalton leaves No 11 Downing Street, holds up despatch bag. Cripps seated at desk. Coalminers work at coal face. Miners place supports in position. Elevated crowds in Trafalgar Square. Montage - GV Dunkirk evacuation. MS soldiers climb over ship’s rail. Three shots men working in foundry. SCU Hitler silhouetted against cloud background. Hitler fades, sunsets, formation of German planes flyover, mix with explosion (incendiary). Firemen at night fighting fires. Royal Family and Queen Mary in family group. Crowds outside Palace rush towards gates. Elevated shot of crowds crammed tightly (very good shot). Wedding procession through Abbey towards camera. Couple in carriage wave to crowd. MS crowds at Cenotaph ceremony. Men on strike seated on pavement. Girls and men working at factory benches, crowds leave factory, over this is a piston rod in and out of picture. Crowd shots (many hands shaking) superimposed over crowd shots. Elevated crowd shots outside Palace. Wishing All a Happy 1948 to finish. Over miners fixing supports. Cripps appears and appeals for us to pull together. REVIEW OF THE YEAR TAPE - BMN 353. TIMECODE IN: 00:40:40:00. OUT: 00:48:43:05
Keywords
Review of the Year
Footage sources
Library
Card file number
49622
Credits:
Camera
David W. Samuelson
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
758
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