Royal Visit to Oil Refinery

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1349

Date Released

11 Apr 1955

Date submitted

6 Apr 1955

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2 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Visit to Kent Oil Refinery. DESCRIPTION: The Kent Oil Refinery on the Isle of Grain, owned and operated by the British Petroleum Company was recently visited by the Queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh. SHOTLIST: GV of the refinery. Shots of the refinery. Royal car arriving. CU of Queen and party. GV of the Queen walking round. GVs of the Queen looking at various parts of the refinery. Laboratory. CU of the Duke and Queen. GV of a tanker. Queen goes aboard. Queen leaves. CU of the Duke.

Keywords

Royalty; Industry and manufacture

Locations

Kent; Grain

Card file number

63264

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera: Peter Brown
Camera: Robert Turner

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