Old Soldiers’ Cheese

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1593

Date Released

14 Dec 1959

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Riches from the Desert
2. 2Birds on Show
3. 3Ike’s Goodwill Tour
4. 4Old Soldiers’ Cheese
5. 5Take an Egg
6. 6Sam the Spaceman

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Old Soldiers’ Cheese. DESCRIPTION: This is 81-year-old Drummer Bathgate, beating the march of the cheeses at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Good English cheese has been part of the fare for 260 years. General Sir Brian Horrocks led the Ceremony of the Christmas Cheese, and he was soon chatting with the Boys of the Old Brigade over drinks. SHOTLIST: CU drum. MS Drummer Bathgate. GV hall. CU cheeses. MS Sir Brian Horrocks. MS chef cutting cheese. MS Sir Brian and pensioners. CU same. GV pensioners. CU same (3). GV same. CU same.

Keywords

Organisations; War veterans; Food and cooking; Ceremonies; Older people; Military

Locations

Chelsea; England; Royal Hospital

Card file number

78837

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Len Waldorf

Length of story (in feet)

68

Story extras:

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