AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 748, 24 February 1915, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

SIXTY YEARS A QUEEN

Concerning this great cinema to bo shown on Thursday and Friday nights, at the Empress Pictures, the Wellington Post eaid: "Sixty Years a Queen," a remarkable historic animated picture of a character never previously attempted, was introduced before a thronged audionco at the King's Theatre laßt evening. The subject is more than a mere cinematographic enactment, it; is a moving chronicle of famouo land-marks in national progress during the longest; reign of any British sovereign. The reign of Queen Victoria wan singularly notable for the vast stridea made in literature, science and the arte." The film is the work of tho Barker Company, a British firm, find is n creditable achievement from many standpoints. There are no palpable stage and make-believe, no illfitting disguises, or obvious scenic fakes. The mountings are magnificent, and costumes elaborate and carefully adapted to tho various periods, and tho principals have been so carefully selected that one ould almost imagine that the real persons had been conjured from the past to act their parts over again. The scrocningjof the work was punctuated hy frequent outbursts of applause. It would bo impossible in iho limited space available to detail every event or episode. The prelude to tho work constitutes the death-lied scene of Willaim IV. Then follows the hasty journey on horseback of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Cunyngham from Windsor to Kensington to announce to the young Princess Victoria thut she is Queen of tho British Empire. Everything is qui to natural, whethor it be tho young Queen holding her first council at Kensington Palace, or mounted on her white charger watching her fust review in Windsor Great Park. . . The running commentary by Mr Barrie Marshold is instructive and entertaining." Tho production occupies almoßt tho entire rjroßramtrtfi, i which contains only one other item, I the Pathe War Gazette.