Commonwealth Premiers at Buckingham Palace

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1038

Date Released

25 Apr 1949

Date submitted

21 Apr 1949

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: King Receives Dominion Premiers. DESCRIPTION: The King receives the Commonwealth Premiers who are here in London for the important conference to determine the relationship between the nations concerned. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS GV Buckingham Palace, grounds in foreground. Interior - Pan of premiers with Royal Family - The King, Queen, Princess Margaret, Princess Elizabeth, Duke of Edinburgh, Duchess of Kent, Duchess of Gloucester. Queen with Pandit Nehru. Several shots of all talking among themselves in small groups. King with a premier walks towards camera. Posed shot - panning of King, Attlee, Mr Senanayake (Ceylon), Mr Lester Pearson (Canada), Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan), Attlee, Mr Chifley (Australia), Dr Daniel Malan (South Africa). Mr Fraser (NZ) & Pandit Nehru (India). SCU of the above.

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government; Conferences; Diplomacy

Locations

Buckingham Palace

Footage sources

Gaumont British News Rota

Card file number

51831

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

125

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