The Duke Goes Back to Sea

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1063

Date Released

17 Oct 1949

Date submitted

15 Oct 1949

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Premier Lays Concert Hall Foundation-Stone
2. 2North Atlantic Security Alliance Meet
3. 3Churchill’s Message to His Party
4. 4Soccer - Wales V England
5. 5The Duke Goes Back to Sea

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Duke Goes Back to Sea. DESCRIPTION: The Duke of Edinburgh leaves Heathrow Airport for Malta, where he is to take up command of the destroyer Chequers. SHOTLIST: KS Wash only of a ship, taken from stern of ship. LIBRARY - MS Duke, Princess & Prince Charles. Duke inspects naval cadets. CU Duke in naval uniform. Walks through grounds with other officers at Greenwich Naval College. Taken lesson in classroom. At Horsham, explaining map, and classwork etc. Line of destroyers, same class as "Chequers", but not the "Chequers". MS "Consort". Heathrow, Duke in civvies leaves, boards plane with Countess Mountbatten and Lady Pamela Mountbatten. Viking plane taxies across aerodrome & takes off. GV Malta - library.

Keywords

Royalty

Footage sources

Library

Card file number

52660

Credits:

Camera

Alec Tozer

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

110

Story extras:

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