Royal Ascot

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1149A

Date Released

14 Jun 1951

Date submitted

12 Jun 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Zoo Manners
2. 2French Battle Rebels
3. 3Berlin Parade
4. 4Persian Oil
5. 5Covent Garden
6. 6Royal Ascot
7. *Princess at Worcester and Birmingham
8. *Glasgow Police Sports

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Ascot - Queen Anne’s Stakes. DESCRIPTION: The Royal drive is, by long tradition, a most important feature of the meeting and Princess Elizabeth drove, with Her Majesty in the first carriage. Princess Margaret was in the second. Ascot, of course, provides one of the greatest parades of fashion of the year with accent on hats. In the first race, the Queen Anne Stakes, Ki Ming was the favourite and he set the pace for most of the way, but once again, he failed to stay, and the Begum Aga Khan’s Neron left him behind in the last furlong to win by a length. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Elevated GV Royal procession along course. Crowds in stands, fashions. CU Golden Gates - re-painted. GV Gates open & royal procession coming through. Various shots of procession down course, Queen, Princess Elizabeth & Duke of Gloucester in first landau. Second landau: Princess Margaret, Princess Royal. CU types women’s hats, some blowing in breeze. SCU Princess Margaret amid crowds. LS start of race. Pan of race. Cut-in royal family excluding King in box. Neron takes lead & goes on to win from Ki Ming. Finish on shots of royal box.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Horse racing; Buildings and structures; Weather; Ceremonies; Fashion and costume

Footage sources

Gaumont
Rota

Card file number

55618

Credits:

Camera

Alec Tozer

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Martin Gray

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

150

Story extras:

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