Learning on Screen'Rulers of the Queens Navy’
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ‘Rulers of the Queens Navy’. DESCRIPTION: The Admiralty, a fine building with a long history, has moved across Whitehall to the new Ministry of Defence. Here, the Navy will join the Army and the Air Force, to be administered by the Defence Council. The old Admiralty built in 1725 by Thomas Ripley, has many relics. Among them, Nelson’s signature made with his right hand and his left. The famous Zimmermann Message, deciphered by an Admiralty team during World War One, with the result that America declared war on Germany! And there are portraits and pictures which tell the story of the Navy for nearly three centuries. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV new HQ of the Admiralty (2 shots). LAS exterior old Admiralty. LAS entrance to same. CU plaque Ministry of Defence. GV entrance to same. LS Admiralty building through arch. MLS statue of Nelson flanked by antique chairs. CU antique chair. MLS chairs flanking statue and pan up to chandelier. LAS staircase. GV alcove under staircase. CU clock hanging in alcove. CU plaque at bottom of Nelson’s statue. CU statue of same. CU signatures of Nelson. CU pan across same. CU portrait of Samuel Pepys. CU plaque on portrait. CU portrait of Samuel Pepys. MS portrait of the Earl of Sandwich. CU plaque on same. CU portrait of the Earl of Sandwich. MS portrait of his mistress Martha Ray. CU plaque on same. CU portrait of Martha Ray. MCU seascape picture. Plaque on same. CU seascape picture and zoom in MCU modern seascape. CU same and pan across. CU plaque on door First Lord. GV pan across same’s room. CU zoom in portrait of Sir Winston Churchill. CU zoom in damaged cupboard door. MCU Zimmermann message. CU same. CU detail of same and pan across. GV Hydrographers Department. MS Admiralty staff inspecting charts in same. CU outer cover chart. CU detail of chart (4 shots). CU detail of Spanish charts. CU navigation instrument. CU navigation equipment flanking fireplace in board room (Grinling Gibbons). MCU same. MCU other carvings round fireplace. CU same. GV boardroom. GV table in board room. CU cut out from table. MCU white mark by fireplace indicating height of Nelson. CU same. MCU wind indicator. CU needle of same. GV wind indicator over fireplace in board room. GV board room.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Arts and crafts; History and archaeology
- Locations
- London
- Card file number
- 88102
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Peter A. West
- Camera
- Ronald E. Collins
- Length of story (in feet)
- 350
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