Royal Diary - Northern Star

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1674

Date Released

3 Jul 1961

Date submitted

28 Jun 1961

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Northern Star - Tyneside. DESCRIPTION: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, in spite of the injury to her foot, launched the new liner for the Shaw Savill Line, on Tyneside. Northern Star, a 22,000 ton one-class vessel, will complement her sister ship (The Southern Cross) in a round-the world service. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV Queen Mother steps out of car and waves to crowds. MS Queen Mother injured foot. MCU Queen Mother. GV crowd. GV Queen Mother in wheel chair. LS new liner (Northern Star). MS Queen Mother on launching platform. LAS liner. LS Queen Mother speech. Pan to ship moving. MS liner slides down launching pad. GV same. GV sea swell. MS Queen Mother on launching platform. LS Northern Star.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Launchings

Locations

Tyneside

Card file number

82763

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: John Davies
Camera: Ken Taylor

Length of story (in feet)

102

Story extras:

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