Remembrance

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2110A
Date Released
13 Nov 1969
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Remembrance

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Story No. within this Issue
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Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Remembrance. DESCRIPTION: Is Remembrance Day an anachronism in a modern world? It is time it was either drastically modified or the ceremonies finished with in favour of a day of personal, private mourning? As these questions are being asked, particularly by generations which have never known the challenge of war, we accompany the veterans of Walcheren on a sentimental journey to the Dutch Island they liberated, exactly 25 years agoAt Westminster Abbey, we join men of the Gurkhas, whose role is unique in British military history, as they pay tribute to their founder, Lord Kitchener. Their selfless spirit of service serves to highlight the dilemma of modern times when such ideals are often claimed to be part of an outworn ideologyWhat then is the future of Remembrance Day?We present, on this Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Remembrance Sunday - AN IMPRESSION IN COLOUR of the Garden of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey and the ceremonies at the CenotaphWe leave you to judge if this is merely a mournful national pageant with no place in the 1970’s, or a Nation’s way of dedicating itself to preserving the peace, won at such sacrifice. SHOTLIST: B/W SECTION: 2 shots from HMS Corunna at sea. HMS Corunna is bound for Holland to commemorate the liberation of Walcheren. LS Royal White Ensign pan down to wake of ship. MS sailors pan to radar. LAS mast (library). 2 shots main seaborn strike force in 1944 (library). AS Walcheren. LS Walcheren from sea (both library). 4 shots commandos prepare for attack on Walcheren (library). 2 shots ex-war veterans travelling on HMS Corunna. 2 CU shots of veterans. GV wash from ship. MS veteran strolls along deck of ship, steps to look over side. Library shots - GV convoy in sea 1944. GV shells explode in sea. G to A pan down ditto. 2 aerial shots. 2 shots scenes on land. TS troops walking up beach. MS ditto. MCU BS commando fires rifle. MLS troops run through town. MS ditto. MS troops in streets. MS pan veterans walk through street of town today. MS veterans speak to townswoman of today. LAS pan down Resistance memorial. MS pan Queen Juliana lays wreath. MS crowd. MCU Queen Juliana. LS military parade. MS Queen Juliana & party. GV parade. TS ditto. GV St. Paul’s Cathedral. MS men on the Gurkha Rifles enter ditto. MS men halt at the tomb of Lord Kitchener. MCU ditto. MS Gurkha enters carrying a wreath. MS Gurkha stands over tomb with wreath. MCU Gurkha lays wreath. MCU wreath. COLOUR SECTION: CU poppy dissolve to wreath in background. MS Queen Mother. MS Queen Mother plants a cross in the field of Remembrance - pan down CU poppy. GV buildings of Whitehall pan to Cenotaph. TS gathering for remembrance ceremony. MS Big Ben. MCU ditto. GV cannons salute in Hyde Park. G to A bird in flight. MCU zoom bronze statue of soldier on war memorial. CU zoom out face of ditto. MS feet of tomb of the unknown warrior. TS Queen & Prince Philip etc. TS Queen. MS Mr Wilson, Heath, Thorpe bearing wreaths. TS wreath bearers of other nations. MLS group in royal box. TS Royal Marine trumpeters zoom out to other soldiers. 2 shots incidents in the crowd between police and peace demonstrators. TS crowd. MS Queen lays wreath. MLS group in royal box. MS Prince Philip lays wreath, zoom in inscription THE GLORIOUS DEAD zoom in poppy amongst leaves.
Keywords
Royalty; War veterans; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Weapons; Horticulture; Explosions; Ceremonies; Demonstrations; Riots; Navy; Military
Locations
London; United Kingdom; Netherlands; Walcheren
Footage sources
Library
Card file number
95339
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
293
Story extras:
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