The Cup Final

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1405

Date Released

9 May 1956

Date submitted

5 May 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Soviet Leaders Welcome Home
2. 2The Cup Final
3. *Duke Visits Lowestoft
4. *Scotland V Austria

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 2

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: FA Cup Final - Manchester City V Birmingham City. DESCRIPTION: Manchester City v Birmingham City battle for the coveted trophy before 100,000 people at Wembley. SHOTLIST: The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Cup Final. Teams presented to the Duke of Edinburgh. Len Boyd and Roy Paul toss up. Boyd wins the toss. Shot of the Queen, ??, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Earl Mountbatten seated. CU ball. Referee blows his whistle. Don Revie kicks off. Shots of play. Revie kicks ball to Roy Clarke who passes to Joe Hayes who scores goal. Shot of crowd. Shots of play. Noel Kinsey scores Birmingham’s equaliser. Shot of crowds. CU man with silly hat on. Shots of crowds. Brown kicks off second half. Crowd shot of play. Dyson scores. Crowd shots. Shots of play. Bobby Johnstone scores for Manchester. Crowds. MCU Queen and various other VIPs clapping. Duke talking to Queen. Shot of play. Peter Murphy clashes with Bert Trautmann. Crowd. Incident seen again in slow motion from behind the goal. Shots of play. Trautmann hurt again. Crowd play. Birmingham player congratulating Manchester players. MCU Manchester City players walking up steps to receive the cup. Queen presents cup to Roy Paul. Roy Paul holds cup up. Roy Paul makes speech. MCU Bert Trautmann. CU champagne being poured into the FA Cup. Various players drinking from the Cup.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Football

Locations

London; England; Wembley

Card file number

66853

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Norman Fisher

Camera

Paul Wyand

Camera

Robert Turner

Camera

Samuelson

Camera

Terry O’Brien

Length of story (in feet)

402

Story extras:

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