WELCOME THE QUEEN
(Associated British-Pathé) PART from the National Film Unit’s record of the Queen’s progress through New Zealand-which I enjvyed partly because I like the Unit’s photoeraphic style and in equal measure because the films had a cosy family-album quality ("Look, Mum, there’s Merv!"’)this treatment, mainly homeward-bound,
\ is the most interesting part of the Royal Tour record I have seen. There is more variety in the events, the Eastman colour, if a little misty at times, has a sophisticated delicacy which seems particularly appropriate to the sea-voyage and the English spring-and when it comes to ceremonial and pageantry Britain can still teach us how to do it. Yet it wasn’t the landing in the heart of London that impressed me most. The
Navy stole the show in mid-Mediterran-ean when the fleet, in two columns, bore down on the Royal Yacht at full speed, "a ‘Swept past ho nore tharfa cable’s length, it seemed-on either beam.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 26
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156WELCOME THE QUEEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 26
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