Making Moomba (In Colour)

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1761
Date Released
4 Mar 1963
Date Other
Feb 1963
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Get a Move On
  2. 2Protecting the Pilot
  3. 3Making Moomba (In Colour)

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Making Moomba (In Colour). DESCRIPTION: Moomba is the Aborigines’ word for Happy Days - and it’s also Melbourne’s name for the annual Festival. The Music Bowl featured in the celebrations, as the scene of a Royal concert in honour of the Queen’s visit. Her Majesty and Prince Philip drive to the Town Hall in a searing heatwave - to watch the Moomba procession. The floats cost hundreds of pounds a piece and there were some thirty of them. Another Queen attended the parade. Long journey from the Nile to this City on the Yarra, but Cleopatra did it in style. A pageant of Australia - the wealth of its three million square miles - the colour and vitality of its people - which has been reflected in every facet of this exciting Royal Journey. SHOTLIST: Key scene (fade in). GV Melbourne. LS annual Moomba Festival (5 shots). MLS Queen and Duke walk through crowds. MCU ladies wearing fancy hats. CU man standing on cans. MS Queen and Duke. Crowd shots (2 shots) people laying in the sun (11 shots). MS crowd clapping. AS Melbourne’s Music Bowl. AS Queen and Duke driving to Town Hall, attendants make paper hats for children (3 shots). Children in paper hats (2 shots). Bands through streets (2 shots). Float past camera (2 shots). MS children, beauty queen on float (2 shots). GV float with crown. GV City of Mildura float. BS float, children drinking (5 shots). Live-saving float (3 shots). CU little girl. Cleopatra float (4 shots). Float with lion and unicorn (3 shots). MS float depicting Australian sheep. Float past camera (3 shots). AS Melbourne.
Keywords
Royalty; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Customs and traditions; Ceremonies
Locations
Melbourne; Australia
Card file number
86139
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Mark McDonald
Length of story (in feet)
323
Story extras:
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