His Majesty Visits USS Columbus

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1067

Date Released

14 Nov 1949

Date submitted

8 Nov 1949

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: His Majesty Visits Uss Columbus. DESCRIPTION: At Portsmouth, His Majesty received the Keys of the City on arrival, afterwards in procession he drove to the cruiser USS Columbus. Aboard he was received by Admiral Connolly and Mr Lewis Douglas. The Royal Standard was flown from the ship during His Majesty’s visit. SHOTLIST: KS. "Columbus" fully dressed. Train pulls into station, King alights presented with Keys of City. Drives in car to dockyard. King boards ship, salute fired, piped aboard, greeted by Admiral Connolly, also Mr Douglas (Ambassador). King inspects guard of honour. Various shots of ship. SCU Royal Standard flying at masthead - rare event. King inspects the ship, various shots. King & company go below. Posed shots of King & company on deck of ship.

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government; Ceremonies; Local government; Navy; Military

Locations

Portsmouth

Card file number

52772

Credits:

Camera: Graham T. Thompson
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Martin Gray
Camera: Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

149

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