Director: RICHARD WARREN. Photographed in Technicolor by Leslie Dear, Donald Long, and others. Film editor: Bill Freeman. Music: John Hollingsworth. Commentary: Deryck Guyler. Sound recording: Ken Cameron. Producer: Ralph May.
An Anvil Films Production for C.O.I., released in the U.K. through Anglo-Amalgamated: February 1957. 749 feet. 8 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A pictorial record of the trooping the colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade, London, in June 1956. The ceremony celebrates the Queen's official birthday.
COMMENT: Directed with astounding technical virtuosity, the normally humdrum royal documentary is here brilliantly turned on its head, the ceremony captured with a vigour and vibrancy that television coverage of similar events has never attempted. Superb photography and high fidelity sound recording make this little item one to treasure in the permanent collection.
An Anvil Films Production for C.O.I., released in the U.K. through Anglo-Amalgamated: February 1957. 749 feet. 8 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A pictorial record of the trooping the colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade, London, in June 1956. The ceremony celebrates the Queen's official birthday.
COMMENT: Directed with astounding technical virtuosity, the normally humdrum royal documentary is here brilliantly turned on its head, the ceremony captured with a vigour and vibrancy that television coverage of similar events has never attempted. Superb photography and high fidelity sound recording make this little item one to treasure in the permanent collection.
