Review of 1950

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1125A

Date Released

28 Dec 1950

Date submitted

19 Dec 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Trailer: Post Office Savings
2. 2Review of 1950

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 2

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Review of 1950. DESCRIPTION: The year’s historic and dramatic events recalled. SHOTLIST: KS. CU book reading "BMN" book opened & credit titles on inside pages. Interior chamber of the House of Commons - GVs of the new House - Interior. Poster - on general election. Woolton looks up at poster. Night shots - crowds in Piccadilly read election results from lights. Cut-ins radios - SCU. Newspaper headlines, paper placed on top of one another. Cameramen swarm Downing Street. SCU Cripps leaves No 11, fade Westminster. Hall - interior, audience rise as Royal Family enter, walk down centre aisle. Lord Jowitt reads (silent). Lord Jowitt presents Scroll of England. Fade Belgium riots over return of King Leopold. CU poster crown & blood dripping from same. Police try to keep control in street but Belgians persist throwing things about including chairs. SV Prince Baudouin. Interior - Baudouin takes oath at Parliament. Jeers from the Communists unseen. Fade, Berlin - East Sector - Communist march in orderly fashion - youth organisations. Various shots of marching, fade. CU nations flags flying together. CU Schuman interior - Council of Europe sitting (horse-shoe shape). LS Capitol. Truman walks along through home town shaking hands with neighbours. GV building where he was nearly assassinated. Stills of dead assassins lying on ground. Fade - troops stand around fires in Korea. Troops marching single file across country. Artillery firing. Battleship & rocket ship firing. Dusk shots of troops crossing country on landing. Troops on tanks pass camera. Tanks pass cameras. British troops in Korea. Elevated GV troops in camp. UNO - Secretary of Council - Trygve Lie. SCU front & back view Vyshinsky reading English newspaper. Artillery firing. FADE GV Moscow building. Russian troops marching - Russian style. Centurian tanks passing camera coming off line. Aerial shot of Indo-China. French troops fire small calibre guns. Malaya & British troops wade through water waist deep, several shots. Nehru embraced person. Procession passes through streets. In Bechuanaland, shots of tribes stand around. CU Seretse Khama. CU Ruth Williams. MS of both arriving in England with their baby. FADE. Funeral procession, SCU coffin. SCU Smuts. CU Mackenzie King, MS Sir Harry Lauder walk past cameras. MS GBS house. CU George Bernard Shaw. SCU Brumas & his mother cuddling him. Several shots of same. Christening of Princess Anne: Royal Family seated on sofa - Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth & Princess Anne. Group on sofa - Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary & Prince Charles, SCU Prince Charles. CU Princess Anne. Queen Elizabeth at Covent Garden. Arrival of French President Auriol & wife at Covent Garden. At Victoria Station King & Queen greet Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard. Juliana drives away in open landau. Elevated GV carriage entering Buckingham Palace. FADE - Grand National - Freebooter winning. Cup Final - carrying off winning Arsenal captain. Calcador winning the Derby. Danny Kaye plays golf. Ascot - GV King & Queen arrive in open landau. Gordon Richards on a mount. Night shots English Channel swimmers at sea, shot of person swimming Channel. CU bathing beauty contest girl. GVs of Festival of Britain site, nearing completion. Shots of Battersea Park amusements for Festival. SCU Attlee pans to SCU Attlee & Truman. Group - Attlee, Truman, Marshall & Acheson. Various shots of the Atom Bomb exploding, including the underwater one. Large question mark over aerial of atom bomb. Book closed. REVIEW OF THE YEAR TAPE - BMN 353. TIMECODE IN: 01:08:38:00. OUT: 01:17:08:06

Keywords

Review of the Year

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

54770

Credits:

Commentator

John Snagge

Length of story (in feet)

768

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