Her Majesty in Midlands

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1104

Date Released

31 Jul 1950

Date Other

Jul 1950

Stories in this Issue:

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Her Majesty Tours the Midlands (Mute). DESCRIPTION: Mansfield and Worksop were just two of the stops on the Queen’s Midland tour. SHOTLIST: KS. Crowd shot. Crowds in streets of Mansfield & Market Place. Elevated GV arrival Royal car. Queen & Mayor (Alderman Pratt) walk along outside Town Hall talk to disabled men. Arrives at Portland Training College for disabled. Mounts rostrum. Queen greeted by Duchess of Portland. Queen addresses gathering. Walks through crowd to college. SCU turning key in door. Interior - Queen chats with disabled working. At Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital walks past nurses. Interior, watching patients receive treatment in remedial bath. Drives through crowded street of children at Worksop. Crowd shots. Leaving Town Hall with Mayor. GV Hesley Hall School for Cripples. Queen receive bouquet from small crippled girl. Chats with many small children. SCU of Queen turning & waving to children.

Local distribution only

For Birmingham release only instead of Item 1.

Keywords

Royalty

Footage sources

Gaumont British News Rota

Card file number

54105

Credits:

Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

192

Story extras:

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