Learning on ScreenRoyal Tour. Welcome Home
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ‘Welcome Home’. DESCRIPTION: Historic Pictures of the Royal Family’s progress up the Channel to London. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. GV ‘Britannia’ at sea. Aerial (dawn) of ‘Britannia’ under escort in Channel. GV air to air of Sunderland flying boats. GV ‘Britannia’. GV ‘Vanguard’. Excellent line ahead shots of fleet. Sailors cheer Queen and Duke on bridge. Line ahead shots of fleet escorting ‘Britannia’ including Aircraft Carrier ‘Centaur’. Various shots of Britannia making her way up river. ‘Patricia’ Trinity House Boat. CU her flag. GV planes in formation overhead. Various shots of journey up river. GV Greenwich Naval College. GV Tower Bridge open. ‘Britannia’. in distance. Lord Mayor of London rowed out to meet ‘Britannia’. Tower Pier Queen Mother & Princess Margaret. GV Queen, Duke & Churchill on bridge of ‘Britannia’. Queen Mother and Princess Margaret board Royal Launch to go over to the ‘Britannia’. GV of Royal Party on launch. Royal Party boarding ‘Britannia’. Afternoon. Queen down steps into launch. Royal Standard lowered from masthead. Shots of boats up river. Lord Waverley accompanied Queen Mother and Princess. Duke of Edinburgh greets Queen Mother and Princess as they board ‘Britannia’. Churchill waiting on quay to welcome Royal Family. Duchess of Kent and Duchess of Gloucester kiss Queen. Queen inspects Guard of Honour Grenadier Guards. Various scenes of the state drive back to Palace. Various scenes of Queen, Duke and children on balcony. Queen Mother and Princess Margaret out onto balcony. Royal family waving to end. There is a close up of Royal Standard flying from pole in this story.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Aviation; Ceremonies; Local government; Navy; Military
- Locations
- London; Buckingham Palace; England; English Channel; Thames Estuary; Pool of London
- Footage sources
- Admiralty
British Paramount News
Gaumont British News Rota
Pathe Rota
- Card file number
- 61015
- Credits:
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- Camera
- George Richardson
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Camera
- John H. Shaw-Jones
- Camera
- Keith Latham
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Camera
- Montague G. Benson
- Camera
- Peter Brown
- Camera
- Roy Fogwell
- Camera
- Terry O’Brien
- Length of story (in feet)
- 770
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