Learning on ScreenThe Review of 1951
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- British Movietone News
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- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Review of the Year - 1951. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Title of the above. Korea - Artillery firing - various shots. Troops jump into ditch as explosion goes off in background. Advance across country. US Marines on tanks retreat across reservoir. US troops advance, also tanks. Truce talks Red & UN delegates arrive, seated round table. Various shots Gloucester Regiment being decorated. GV MacArthur & wife leave Tokyo, for home. Board plane, plane taxies. Drive through New York - ticker tape falling. Interior - addresses Congress. Malaya - GV parade Sir Henry Gurney inspects troops. Troops wading through swamps in jungle. GV buildings. Liaquat Ali Khan lying in state. Tehran - GV building. Dr Mossadeq seated in bed. Various shots demonstrations by mobs. London Airport - AIOC employees alight from plane. Map of Iran showing oilfields. GV oilfields. CU Farouk & wife at their wedding. Several shots Suez Canal shows British troops alongside, as ships pass along. Troops through streets. Morrison walks across from Foreign Office to No 10. Various close-ups of Bevin. GV South Bank Festival, crowds walk round. GVs showing Skylon, Dome of Discovery etc. Morrison off launch at Battersea Park. GVs Battersea Park Fun-Fair. GV Test Match at Sydney. Oxford crew racing on Thames; & in America, beating Yale & Harvard. Finish of Grand National. Newcastle captain with Cup shouldered. Finish of the Derby. Turpin in training. CU Turpin & Robinson. A Bevan & Jennie Lee leave their home. GV Houses of Parliament. Attlee stands outside No 10. Night - crowds in Trafalgar Square & Piccadilly, slides showing results of General Election. Royal Exchange daylight scenes, crowds watching. Churchill at Woodford, gives ‘V’ sign & enters building with his wife. Eden in Paris, SCU Eden. Princess Elizabeth & Duke seated on back of car - Canada. Walks up steps at Winnipeg to Government House. Crowds cheering. Looking at Niagara Falls. Trucking shot from train passing through Rockies. Washington Airport, greeted by Truman, Princess Elizabeth & Truman in car, drive through streets. Euston, Queen & Prince Charles with Princess Margaret await Duke & Princess arrival. Several shots Princess Elizabeth with Prince Charles. Guildhall - Princess Elizabeth addresses gathering. King & Queen at Garter ceremony. Presentation of RAF colours. GV Buckingham Palace. Sir Price Thomas enter his car. Crowds outside Palace look at bulletins, preceded by King’s arrival at Northolt. King shakes hands with FA Cup players. King in naval uniform. CU King & Queen at Buckingham Palace - interior - very good.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Sport; Horse racing; Rowing; Students; Education and training; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Environment; Aviation; Foreign relations; Railways; Business and commerce; Death; Celebrations and festivals; Conferences; Cricket; Boxing; Industry and manufacture; Explosions; Ceremonies; Football; Landforms; Riots; Marriages; Navy; Water sports; Military; Funerals; Awards and honours; Exhibitions and shows; Assassinations
- Locations
- London; River Thames; Downing Street; South Bank; London Heathrow Airport
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- Library
- Card file number
- 56521
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 692
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