Royal Visitors at Film Studios

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1137A

Date Released

22 Mar 1951

Date submitted

19 Mar 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Students’ Protest Ends in Riot
2. 2Another Turpin Victory
3. 3Princess Starts River Race - And Leaves for Malta
4. 4Royal Visitors at Film Studios
5. 5Calcutta Cup - England’s Victory

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Visitors at Film Studios. DESCRIPTION: Paying a visit to Elstree Studios, the Queen and Princess Margaret spent nearly two hours on the set of the The Magic Box which is to be a Festival of Britain film. The Royal visitors saw the shooting of a scene between Robert Donat and Maria Schell. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. MS Robert Donat standing on set. GV Queen & Princess Margaret enter set, technicians stand around. Robert Donat shows Princess old camera - Friese-Greene. John Boulting shows Queen double image film. Queen inspects technicolor camera. Several shots all angles of the Queen & PM seated watching shooting of scene. Robert Donat & Maria Schell acting on set. Bouquet handed to Queen, Mr Pratt of the ‘props’. Janette Scott back view, & SV hands Princess Margaret bouquet & talks (silent) to royalty.

Keywords

Royalty; Entertainment and leisure; Industry and manufacture; Cinema; Performing arts

Locations

Elstree

Footage sources

Pathe

Card file number

55186

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

143

Story extras:

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