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The Festival of Wales

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1509
Date Released
5 May 1958
Date submitted
3 May 1958
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Royal Academy
  2. 2Red Flag Rumpus
  3. 3The Cup Final
  4. *The Festival of Wales

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival of Wales. SHOTLIST: GV Welsh countryside. GV car park. Closer same. MS City Hall. MS Duke of Gloucester alights from car. CU 2 girls in welsh costume. MS. MS City Hall pan to dragon float. CU Dragon’s head. MS International Contingent walking. MS Polish Contingent walking. MS Spanish & Hungarian same. MS float passes camera. MS Welsh float. CU same. MS VIPs watching. LS bands marching. MS goat mascot. MS flag bearers. MS ‘South Wales Borderers’. MS British Bloodhound float. MS Cardiff ‘Snowflakes Choir’ float. MS float with yacht. MS Welsh dragon float.
Local distribution only
Extra for Wales
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Celebrations and festivals; Animals
Locations
Cardiff
Card file number
73637
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Camera
James Humphries
Length of story (in feet)
101
Story extras:

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