Long Length Of: Queen Mother Presents Queen’s Colour

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1242
Date Released
23 Mar 1953
Date Other
Mar 1953
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Queen Mother Presents Queen’s Colour
  2. 2Duke of Edinburgh in Germany
  3. 3President Tito’s Tour
  4. 4Calcutta Cup - England V Scotland
  5. 5FA Cup Semi-Finals
  6. 6FA Cup Semi-Finals
  7. *Long Length Of: Queen Mother Presents Queen’s Colour
  8. *Verona’s Horse Fair

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Queen Mother Presents ‘Queens’ Colour to Navy - Plymouth. SHOTLIST: Cut story - LS Navy on parade. Queen Mother walks from dais to kneeling officer and presents the colours to him. Queen Mother’s speech (sound). LS parade. Queen Mother takes salute at marchpast. CU of the colour as it passes dais. Little boy dressed as sailor marches smartly up to QM presents flowers, salutes and marches smartly away.
Local distribution only
Scotland only instead of item 1.
Keywords
Royalty; Children; Ceremonies; Navy; Military
Footage sources
Gaumont British
Card file number
58750
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
149
Story extras:
Film clip

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