Royal Visit to Ideal Home

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1030A

Date Released

3 Mar 1949

Date submitted

1 Mar 1949

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Visit to Ideal Home. DESCRIPTION: Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the 26th Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS MS Olympia entrance. Traffic passes in fore, Olympia in background. Royal car draws up. Princess Elizabeth & Duke of Edinburgh received by Lord & Lady Rothermere. Elevated GV Grand Hall. Party walk through Grand Hall. Elevated GV approach block of flats. Aneurin Bevin, shakes Princess Elizabeth’s hand. MS of them inside flats walking about. Interior - Princess looks at a cot. MS Princess & Duke in bay of window. MS flower beds. MS old fashioned house. Puppets & live models of Britannia Mews revolving on stage. Princess looks on. Lady Rothermere & Mr Charles Truefitt also escorted the party.

Keywords

Royalty; Domestic life; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

Olympia

Footage sources

Universal

Card file number

51558

Credits:

Camera: Alec Tozer
Camera: Hilton Craig
Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin
Camera: Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

146

Story extras:

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