Faith in Remembrance

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1223

Date Released

10 Nov 1952

Date submitted

7 Nov 1952

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Faith in Remembrance. DESCRIPTION: At this season of the year, close to the anniversary of the First World War’s Armistice - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - thoughts turn to the mercy of deliverance to two desperate world-wide wars, and to the men and women who fought in those conflicts but did not survive them . SHOTLIST: Cut story - Houses of Parliament. Big Ben at 11 o’clock - MS - SCU & CU. Elevated GV Whitehall with crowds paying homage on Armistice Day. GV Dieppe. Procession through streets, & troops looking at graves, GV Normandy beaches, Ridgeway arrives & lays wreath at monument. Fade to Korea, rows of crosses. King’s Own Borderers’ attend service, looking at crosses. Pan of crosses. All the above is Library material. In London, Queen Elizabeth walks through Garden of Remembrance outside Westminster Abbey. Queen plants cross in garden, followed by the Duke. Queen walks on.

Keywords

Royalty; Commemorations; Buildings and structures; Environment; Ceremonies; Military; Religion and belief

Footage sources

Library

Card file number

58079

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Martin Gray
Camera: Phil John Turner

Length of story (in feet)

146

Story extras:

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