Their Majesties Visit Festival Site

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1091A

Date Released

4 May 1950

Date submitted

4 May 1950

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Visit to Festival of Britain Site. DESCRIPTION: The site of the 1951 Festival of Britain begins to take shape. Their Majesties, inspecting progress with Mr Morrison and others, made a prolonged tour of the South Bank area, where the exhibition is to be held. SHOTLIST: KS. Pan of Festival site. Several shots of the building under progress on the site (South Bank - Waterloo Bridge). Festival Hall and Dome of Discovery under construction. Their Majesties with Mr Morrison inspect same. Various shots of models of the finished buildings. King & Queen chat (silent) with workmen. Party walk round also includes Mr Anthony Eden & Clement Davies. King & Queen look at model of exhibition.

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

London

Footage sources

Gaumont British News Rota

Card file number

53658

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

122

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