Selected Originals National Savings 40th Birthday (1956)
Selected Originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story “National Savings 40th Birthday“ 56/41
Identical to the original without voice over or music. There are no titles.
Guildhall, London
SV. Queen Elizabeth II goes up the steps to platform (title super over) SV. The Queen standing at table speaking to audience. Sitting on her right is the Lord Mayor Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd and Conservative Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and on her left is Lord Mackintosh of Halifax, President of the National Savings Movement. The Queen addressing the audience. (Nat. Sound) starts: “My husband and I, our children and my sister ............ we are all members of the Savings Group in the Royal household.“ Continue C.U. of Queen and applause is going on. SV. Four Chefs bring the cake, a replica of the Guildhall facade, down the central aisle. LV. The Queen and Lord Mackintosh, start to come down steps towards the cake. They reach it, the Queen picks up knife and goes to cut cake. SV. The Queen starts