Duchess of Kent’s Canadian Tour

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1316A
Date Released
26 Aug 1954
Date submitted
24 Aug 1954
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Royalty on Holiday Cruise
  2. 2Duchess of Kent’s Canadian Tour
  3. 3Cross Channel Race
  4. 4Swimming Without Tears
  5. 5The Duke Returns
  6. 6European Defence Crisis
  7. *The Edinburgh Festival

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Duchess of Kent in Canada. DESCRIPTION: When the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra arrive in Quebec at the start of their Canadian tour, they were welcomed by the Governor-General, Sir Vincent Massey. SHOTLIST: The plane arriving. Duchess and Princess Alexandra alighting. Being greeted by Mr Vincent Massey. Inspecting the guard of honour. Distinguished visitors being presented to the Royals. Duchess entering car with Massey and drives off. Princess in car driving off.
Local distribution only
Not shown in Scotland.
Keywords
Royalty; Politics and government
Locations
Quebec; Canada
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
61695
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
81
Story extras:
Film clip

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
AP Archive
Email
info@aparchive.com
Web
http://www.movietone.com
Phone
+44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held
View all series held by AP Archive

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 56 times.