King’s Colour for RAF

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1147

Date Released

28 May 1951

Date submitted

25 May 1951

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: King’s Colour for RAF. DESCRIPTION: On her 84th birthday Queen Mary joined members of her family in Hyde Park to watch Princess Elizabeth present he King’s Colour to the Royal Air Force. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. CU RAF Emblem. GV parade. Queen Mary arrives - SCU. Arrival of Queen & Princesses. On dais - GV of Royal Family. Vampires & Meteors fly past in formation. Princess Elizabeth in Land Rover, drives along ranks inspecting personnel, also women. Princess presents King’s Colour, raining. MS RAF standing at ease. Princess Elizabeth with umbrella held over her reading King’s message to RAF. Raining very hard, cut-ins RAF commands during speech. Various GVs of the parade, in pouring rain.

Keywords

Royalty; Vehicles; Displays; Weather; Aviation; Ceremonies; Military

Locations

London; Hyde Park

Card file number

55514

Credits:

Camera: Alec Tozer
Camera: George Richardson
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Norman Fisher
Camera: Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

185

Story extras:

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