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Colour Reel: Royal Tour of Canada’s Northwest Territories and Manitoba

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2146
Date Released
20 Jul 1970
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Colour Reel: Royal Tour of Canada’s Northwest Territories and Manitoba

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Section Title
Colour Reel
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Colour Reel Royal Tour of Canada’s Northwest Territories and Manitoba. DESCRIPTION: Movietone News cameras accompany the Royal Family on their extensive tour of Canada’s Northwest Territories, bringing you the highlights of one of the most ambitious journeys ever undertaken by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne. From the shy but sincere welcome of the Eskimos at Frobisher Bay to a boisterous barbecue at Fort Smith, we share the informality of this exciting trip which brought the Queen into close contact with some of her most isolated subjects. Whether chatting with a miner forty niner at Yellowstone or smeared with insect repellant to combat mosquitoes at Fort Providence, the Royal Family maintain a cheerfulness that endears them to all. They follow the footsteps of the early frontiersmen through arctic lands no longer inhospitable, and whether amid the Eskimos or Canadian Indians the British Royal family prove they’re experts at melting the ice. SHOTLIST: GV packed ice in Frobisher Bay. LV ditto pan to settlement. CU sign ‘Welcome Bien Venue’. LV PM of Canada Pierre Trudeau arriving. CU PM, SV Eskimo children. CU ditto. GV Queen down steps of plane & greeted. CU Eskimo woman. SV Queen chatting with Trudeau. GV Canadian Mountie. LV Queen inspects group of Brownies. CU Eskimo baby. SV Queen talks to women. CU two Eskimo women. CU pan Queen walks past crowd. CU Eskimo people and baby. SV Prince Charles & Prince Philip inspect kayak. CU ditto. GV Queen on dais. GV Eskimo couple present gift to Queen. CU Eskimo woman & child. SV Queen has fur coat put over her shoulders. SV Eskimo children. CU Queen receives gift - hands it to aide. LV Eskimo children applaud. GV flying over ice packed sea on way to Resolute Bay. Air to Sea of ice packed sea pan to Prince Charles at controls. General Air View sea and arctic land below. CU Charles at controls. Air View coming in to land at Resolute Bay. GV prospecting equipment & base. SV oil drilling equipment. CU bits of large drills. SV Prince Philip talks with officials & CU Philip. SV Charles with officials. CU Prince Charles talks with officials. General Air View ice packed sea en route for Yellowknife. Shot from air of clouds & sunset. SV people wait at airport. SV Queen down steps of plane. ? crowd & Canadian Mounties. SV Queen & Duke walk past blown away carpet. SV Indian girls. CU pan smiling Indian girls. SV Princess Anne talks with Indian girl. GV goldmine. LV miners with Queen. CU miner. SV Queen talks to miners. CU Princess Anne talks to miner. SV Charles ditto. SV Queen enters mine. CU gold poured into receptacle. CU Queen bends to watch more closely. CU gold poured into ingot. CU Queen watching. SV gold ingots on table. CU Charles & Anne watch. CU Queen handling gold ingot & officials replaces on table. CU ingot on table. GV woods where barbecue in progress at Fort Smith. SV Queen & party through woods. CU sign ‘BBQ BUFFALO DINNER’. LV Prince Philip, pan to buffalo on spit. CU embers burning pan up to buffalo on spit. LV chefs prepare buffalo steaks. CU ditto - cutting up steaks. SV Princess Anne talks to children. CU Princess Anne. GV square dancing in progress. CU Queen & Prince Philip watch. SV square dancing. GV royal plane comes in to land at Fort Providence. SV people watch. LV Queen talks to Indian chiefs (Queen wearing trouser suit). SV Queen’s trousers pan up to Queen talking. CU Indian women with mosquito nets on heads. CU Prince Charles talks to women. CU Queen talks to Indian in lounge suit. CU Charles talks to Indian women. CU two Indian women. LV Indian chief presents Indian dress to Queen. CU Queen holds up dress & examines. CU Indian chief. CU Indian in traditional head-dress. CU another Indian bangs drum. CU Indian girls await presentation. SV 2 Indian girls presented to Charles & Anne. Full CU Indian girl laughing. GV boat race crews line up for inspection on banks of McKenzie River. CU emblem on boat. LV Queen talks to crews. SCU crews. SV Queen stands by boat talking to crew members. CU Queen talking & smiling. CU crew members. LV Queen on flat bottomed boat on river to watch races. LV crowds on bank. GV race in progress. MV crews racing. CU man watching. GV crews racing.
Keywords
Sport; Organisations; Rowing; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Food and cooking; Environment; Aviation; Industry and manufacture; Mining; Fashion and costume; Water sports; Youth
Locations
Canada; Northwest Territories
Card file number
96156
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
639
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