| FORCES IN THE NEWS Various stories of forces in the news from Sandhurst to Accra. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5833 |
| Catalog #: | 7417 | |
| Clip Number: | 7417-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 60/61 | |
| Timecode: | 01:46:39 - 01:50:18 | |
| Location: | England, Ghana | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AERIALS: Air to Air CEREMONIES: Military LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Ghana LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Berkshire LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Hampshire MILITARY: Army, Ghanaian MILITARY: Misc, British ROYALTY: British, Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother, Queen Mum) TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Biplane TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Gliders TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Helicopters TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Parachuting / Skydiving | |
| Description: | Forces in the news. Sandhurst, Berkshire. M/S as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan walks up onto a dais. L/S Sandhurst Military College with cadets lined up in front. M/S officer cadets. M/S people watching. L/S as they march past in passing out parade. C/U black cadet. M/S's as they march. M/S people watching. M/S as Senior-Under Officer R. M. Gamble marches forward to receive Sword of Honor from Macmillan, they shake hands. C/U Macmillan. M/S officers slowly marching up steps into college. M/S Adjutant on horse, he rides up steps and into grand entrance. Intertitle - 'Tidworth' (Wiltshire / Hampshire) C/U Lancer of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers at Busigny Barracks, camera pans as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother walks onto the parade ground to present her Guidon. M/S two of the troops. L/S Queen Mother presenting bearer with the Guidon. M/S trumpeters of the Lancers. L/S as Guidon bearer stands to attention. C/U one of the Lancers. M/S Queen Mother on the saluting base as the Lancers march past in quick time. Various shots as they march along. Intertitle - 'Hants', Middle Wallop, Hampshire. M/S army air corps airplanes flying in formation, plane to plane shots of them. Aerial shot of base below. M/S one coming into land. M/S people watching the display. M/S Bristol Bulldog plane from the First World War flying around. M/S people watching. M/S rescue helicopter giving demonstration. M/S helicopters flying. M/S as a skeeter takes off. M/S glider doing aerobatics. L/S parachutists landing. Intertitle - 'Accra', Ghana. Various shots of Ghanaian police and soldiers waiting to board planes for the Congo. Various shots of trucks, Land Rovers and supplies. M/S as they board plane with kit. Various shots as they line up and get on plane. M/S man sat on ground. M/S plane taxiing. | |


