Full title reads: "
Pathe News Reviews 1951".
Intertitle reads: "
The Festival Year - A year of promise and disappointment, triumph and disaster, joy and anxiety such was -
Britain's
Festival Year".
SV Pan,
King George VI,
Queen Elizabeth (later
Queen Mother) and
Royal party walking towards
Dome of Discovery. SV
King and Queen greet
Clement Attlee and
Winston Churchill. CU
Foreign dignitaries. SV
Queen Mary in wheel chair. SV
King, Queen and
Attlee. LV
People walking through turnstiles with umbrellas. CU signpost '
River Walk' etc. SV
Back view, man and woman walking through puddle. GV
Pigeons being released in
Battersea park. CU
Drum major heading 1,
000 pipers through
Edinburgh, Scotland. SV pipers marching. VS
Performers at
National Eisteddfod in
Wales.
GV
Aerial,
Avonmouth oil fire. (Disasters super-sub.) SV Firemen fighting blazing tank. LV Two submarines at sea on Affray search. CU
Officer looking through binoculars. LV Smoke-float riding waves. CU Sea. GV Weedon train smash, pan, SV
Wrecked coaches.
LV Towards, horses taking jumps in
Grand National (
Sports) sub. LV Towards and pan, the winner passing post. SV Royal party in paddock, at
Epsom. CU Pan,
Gordon Richards riding out. CU Mr Ley On. LV finish of race. '
Nickel Coin' passes post. LV car race at
Silverstone. LV Towards and pan, car crashing. LV People standing around
Boxer Randolph Turpin's train. SV Towards and pan,
Turpin looking out of window as train pulls out. VS
Elevated,
American motor cycle race in progress - with several crashes.
SV Vickers 4-jet
Valiant bomber taking off at Farnborough. (Triumphs sub-title). LV
Avro's
Delta wing aircraft taking off. SV Crowd looking up. LV Delta wing twisting and turning over drome. CU
Pilot Rickett in cockpit of altitude record
Meteor. LV record breaking Meteor climbing. VS
Canberra on record flight. VS
Soldier demonstrating new 280 rifle. VS Fawley oil refinery. SV
Giant grab. CU Pan, from cabin to jib of giant grab.
CU map of
Iran. (
World Affairs super.) GV
Oil refinery at
Abadan. LV Workers leaving refinery. LV
Derrick amid hills, mountains and river. LV
Pipeline winding over mountains. CU
Premier Mossadegh. GV
Police chasing rioters in
Tehran. LV Top view, pan, rioters running from police. SV
Mosque in
Cairo. SV
King Farouk. LV
Ship proceeding through
Suez Canal. SV
Officers on bridge of ship. SV Ship proceeding through
Canal. GV From ship of Canal. GV
Troops in
Egyptian village searching for arms. SV Soldier using mine detector to trace arms. SV Officer looking through case for arms. SV Three soldiers walking away from house. SV Officer leaving house. GV
Egyptians in compound. SV Egyptians in compound, soldiers in foreground on guard. VS
Troopship arriving at
Liverpool, with Gloucesters aboard returning home from
Korea. SV
Houses of Parliament across river. VS Crowds in
Trafalgar Square, on election night. SV
Downing Street nameplate. VS
Churchill and
Eden arriving at Downing Street. SV Crowd. CU
Harold Macmillan arriving. LV Crowd. CU
Man and woman with child. CU closing door of
No 10.
CU
Princess Margaret (
Royal Family super.) CU
Margaret at 21. GV Crowds outside
Buckingham Palace during
King's illness. SV Pressmen awaiting bulletin. SV Pressmen's cameras on pavement. CU
Paper with headline '
The King:
Operation Today'. CU
Clement Price-Thomas getting into car. SV Pressmen move forward to bulletin. LV Attendant fixing bulletin to palace railings. GV Crowd filing past bulletin.
Montage of
Princess Elizabeth's tour of
Canada -
Montreal, Quebec,
Ottawa,
Toronto,
Niagara, Regina, Calgary,
Vancouver,
Montreal,
Washington DC. SV Sandringham signpost at
Wolferton. LV Wolferton. GV Through open gates. CU Pan,
King walking in Sandringham. (Dupe.Neg.)
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- published: 13 Apr 2014
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