Birthday Parade

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1610A

Date Released

14 Apr 1960

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Dr Verwoerd Shot
2. 2Scotland V England
3. 3Birthday Parade
4. 4Army’s New Gun
5. 5New By-Pass
6. 6Limber Up, Girls!

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: NATO Birthday Parade. DESCRIPTION: NATO celebrated its 11th birthday at Joint Headquarters in Germany with a special ceremonial parade. Showing the flag on behalf of Great Britain were men of the first battalion, the Gordon Highlanders. The parade was inspected by an official of the German Ministry of Defence. SHOTLIST: CU flag. GV parade. CU Union Flag. MS German Minister of Defence inspects parade. TS crowds. MS Grenadier Guards (Netherlands) march past. GV crowds. MS kilted Gordons march past.

Keywords

Commemorations; Politics and government; Ceremonies; Military

Locations

West Germany

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

79822

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

50

Story extras:

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