Easter Parade. Holiday Scenes from All over the Country
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Easter Symposium. DESCRIPTION: Royal Maundy - Crowds leave for the coast - Blackpool & Hastings - Eskimos attend church - Kempton Park Racing - Goodwood Motor Racing - Group Captain Townsend wins horse race in Belgium - Dinghy racing at Teddington - Kew Gardens park - The Zoo - Hampstead Heath. SHOTLIST: ROYAL MAUNDY MONEY - Southwark Cathedral. Queen accepts flowers. Good shots of Queen and Duke. GV Cathedral. CU old people. PADDINGTON STATION - GV crowds at station. GV trains. STREETS - Empty in London. CU notice Bank Holiday. BLACKPOOL - GV Blackpool Tower. GV beach. Various shots of children on the beach. Various shots of crowds. HASTINGS - Various shots of beach. People run into the sea. GV sunbathers. ESKIMOS - POND INLET - GV husky pulling Eskimo sledge. Priest rings bell. Eskimos enter church. CU organ being played. Eskimo children egg and spoon race. Various shots of seal race (Eskimos pretending to be seals). Various shots of Eskimos on their sledges moving off. KEMPTON PARK - GV racing. GV bookies. GV crowds. Queen and Princess Margaret in the paddock. Shots of race. Queen in unsaddling enclosure. GOODWOOD - Paddock scenes. People picnicing. Duke of Kent attends. Various shots of motorists’ headgear. CU Stirling Moss. Start of race - cars away. Various shots of race. Salvadori being flagged in as winner. BELGIUM - Group Captain Peter Townsend wins horse race. Led in as winner. TEDDINGTON - Dinghy racing. Various shots of dinghies racing. KEW GARDENS - Various shots of visitors to the gardens. HYDE PARK - Horse and cart parade. CU wheels. CU hoofs. Girls on stage-coach. Various Easter bonnet fashions. LONDON ZOO - Elephant rides. Camel rides. Children. Goat eating ice cream etc. HAMPSTEAD HEATH FAIR - NIGHT - Various shots of the fair in action. Swings, roundabouts etc. Finishes on the posterior of a horse in Hyde Park.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Horse racing; Ceremonies; Animals
- Footage sources
- France
National Film Board of Canada
- Card file number
- 63268
- Credits:
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- Camera
- George Richardson
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Camera
- Peter Brown
- Camera
- Phil John Turner
- Camera
- Samuelson
- Camera
- Terry O’Brien
- Length of story (in feet)
- 564
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