News in Colour: Royal Film Performance 1974

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2339

Date Released

1 Apr 1974

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Budget Day
2. 2London Dinghy Exhibition 1974
3. 3Sled Dog Race
4. 4News in Colour: Royal Film Performance 1974

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Section Title

News in Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Film Premiere Colour. DESCRIPTION: HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother attends the 1974 Royal Film Performance. The film this year is ‘The Three Musketeers’ and among those presented to Her Majesty are Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin, Oliver Reed and Raquel Welch. SHOTLIST: GV Odeon Theatre Leicester Square. LV exterior crowds assembling outside theatre. CU exterior sign ‘The Three Musketeers’. SCU Oliver Reed. SV crowd. STV interior Oliver Reed entering foyer. CU exterior Frank Finlay wearing dark glasses. SV exterior Roy Kinnear. LV interior Raquel Welch arriving in foyer. CU exterior Spike Milligan. SV exterior Christopher Lee. CU ditto. CU cameraman. SV Roger Moore and wife. GV guests in foyer, including Percy Livingstone, Ted Candy, Doreen Candy SV people dressed in period costume. SV exterior Queen Mother’s car, she steps out to be greeted by John Thompson, General Manager of Theatre. LV crowds watching. SV Queen Mother walks into foyer pan back to Princess Alexandra and husband Angus Ogilvy. GV interior stars & guests assembled awaiting Queen Mother. SV Richard Lester, Director of film. SV Michael York who plays D’Artagnan. SV Jean Pierre Cassell who plays King Louis XIII. MS Oliver Reed who plays Athos talking to Geraldine Chaplin (Queen Anne of Austria). LV large ground of 20th Century Fox directors. GV guests assembled. SV Ted Candy and his wife. SV Queen Mother coming upstairs, she walks and shakes hands with Gordon Stulberg, David Raphel standing alongside. CU Percy Livingstone shaking hands with Queen Mother. LV stars lined up for presentation. SV Q Mother talking to Lee and Milligan. SV Q Mother shakes hands with Reed, she talks to him and Frank Finlay. SV Q Mother talks to Raquel Welch and Michael York. SCU ditto. Oliver Reed shakes Q Mother’s hand. SV Chaplin standing with Simon Ward. SV little girl presents Q Mother with bouquet. GV exterior theatre at night, large illuminated sign ‘The Three Musketeers’.

Keywords

Royalty; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Entertainment and leisure; Cinema; Performing arts

Locations

London; England; Leicester Square; Odeon Cinema

Card file number

99852

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Camera

Paul Kavanagh

Length of story (in feet)

305

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