News in Colour: Royal Ascot, 1972
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Section Title
- News in Colour
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Ascot 1972 - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: A fashion show, in the setting of the Sport of Kings. The Shah of Iran accompanies the Queen and Royal family to this most colourful event in the racing calendar. Ladies Day is Gold Cup Day, and victory for Erimo Hawk ridden by P Eddery. SHOTLIST: GV royal carriages pass along the course. SV pan Queen in royal carriage, with Shah of Iran. SV fashionable crowd watch. GV pan carriage into royal enclosure. GV zoom in Princess Anne and Queen Mother. GV crowds around paddock. SV group of women in floppy hats. CU woman in round red hat. SV actress Nina Baden Semplar in hat made of real fresh flowers. CU woman in large trimmed hat with flowers. CU ditto in decorative hat with model horses. SV pan woman in long dress. SV teenage girls. GV crowds around paddock. 2 SVs pan Queen and Shah walk through crowd to paddock. SV pan horse No 8 St Ives. SV group of jockeys. SV group of women watch. SV Duncan Keith mounts No 6 Rock Roi. SV Pat Eddery mounts No 3 Erimo Hawk. GV crowds watch horses leave paddock. SV Queen and Shah watching. SV No 2 Dutch Bells past camera followed by No 3 then No 4 Irvine then No 6, then No 7 Russian Bank, then No 8 St Ives. Woman wearing Wishing Wheel Hat amongst crowd. SV start of race horses and out of stalls. GV horses down straight 1st time pan from leader to other horses. LS Queen watching from royal box. SV pan horses around bend. LS pan 2 leading horses charge towards finish No 6 nearest rail with No 3 passing post. CU sign first. MS Rock Roi led in but later disqualified in favour of Erimo Hawk, jockey dismounts. LS Mrs Shilling. SV ditto wearing long fur muff & hat with long haired son, pan as they walk past 3 women who turn & talk together about the hat. GV massed crowds.
- Keywords
- Sport; Horse racing
- Locations
- Ascot
- Card file number
- 98238
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Denis White
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Reginald William Smith
- Camera
- Stan Goozee
- Length of story (in feet)
- 239
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