The Royal Nigerian Tour

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1393

Date Released

13 Feb 1956

Date submitted

10 Feb 1956

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Nigerian Tour. DESCRIPTION: On the Durbar ground at Kaduna, a model village faithfully reproduced the every day life of the people of the Northern Region. The Queen was delighted by the typical game being played by a cheerful bunch of youngsters. Meanwhile the Duke inspected the products of village industries. Later, the Duke visited an open cast tin mine near Jos. In the Eastern Region at Enugu, the Queen and the Duke watched a performance of traditional dancing. SHOTLIST: Various women on ground. Children playing games. Duke watches extracting grain. Duke at village. Tin mines near Jos. Horses. Long shot of jet. Close up of jet. Government House. Knight Sir Francis Ibiam, KBE. CU of dancers. Queen watching dancers. Queen watching, clapping. Dancers. Single file past dancers feathers on heads. Mary Osmonde OBE.

Keywords

Royalty; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Industry and manufacture; Mining

Locations

Nigeria

Footage sources

Pathe

Card file number

65965

Credits:

Commentator: David Lewis Jacobs

Length of story (in feet)

216

Story extras:

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