Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Royalty Honours Hamlet Premiere
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- British Movietone News
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- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royalty Honours Hamlet Premiere. DESCRIPTION: Their Majesties Princess Elizabeth and Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh attended the premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier’s ‘Hamlet’. SHOTLIST: KS Crowds outside Odeon. MS Shakespeare’s statue in square. MS ditto panning to GV of Odeon Cinema. Interior - Foyer Mr and Mrs Strachey pose for camera. Mr and Mrs Herbert Morrison ditto. GV foyer, in background can be seen Ernest Bevin. Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee arrive. Royal Family in foyer. Bouquets presented to Princess Elizabeth by Bunch Mills and Princess Margaret by Juliette Lockwood (Margaret Lockwood’s daughter). Royal Family walk towards Circle Entrance. CU Duke of Edinburgh. Royal Family walk into foyer after show. Introduced to few people. SCU Jean Simmons talks with Queen (silent).
- Keywords
- Royalty
- Locations
- London; Leicester Square; Odeon Cinema
- Footage sources
- British Paramount
- Card file number
- 50187
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 101
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