Her Majesty and the Land Girls

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1116A

Date Released

26 Oct 1950

Date submitted

24 Oct 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Trailer: Cd AFS
2. 2Queen Victoria Flies In
3. 3Her Majesty and the Land Girls
4. 4Movietone Always Gets You the Big News Stories. Next Edition - Opening of the New House of Commons by His Majesty. Don’t Miss It
5. 5Scotland’s Fourth Goal?
6. 6UN Flag for British Troops
7. 7French Indo-China Crisis
8. 8Truman’s Plain Taking
9. *Papal Prayers for World Peace

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Queen’s Farewell to the Land Army. DESCRIPTION: The final parade at Buckingham Palace by members of the Women’s Land Army was inspected by the Queen, accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture. SHOTLIST: KS. WLA marching though archway in grounds. Ditto. Queen with Tom Williams mount dais. Talks with WLA girls, which is preceded by presentation of Long Service medals. Basket of fruit etc. on dais which had been presented to the Queen.

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government; Women; Agriculture; Ceremonies

Locations

Buckingham Palace

Footage sources

Pathe Rota

Card file number

54516

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

62

Story extras:

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