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Title: QUEEN MOTHER VISITS INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION

Reference number: 4077

Date: 1954c

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.50 mins

Description: Documents a visit by the Queen Mother (to the Industrial Exhibition of 1954 in the Kelvin Hall?), who is shown around various exhibits, talking to employees and smiling crowds. These include tyre production, rug manufacture, a doll display and woodwork by disabled people.

Shotlist: ints Queen Mother looking at manufacture of rug, shots of her meeting officials, (possibly Lord Bisland and Sir Robert A McLean, Chairman of the Exhibition Committee and Lord Provost?) (0.15) ints Queen Mother talking to people, many elderly (1.20) gvs rug manufacture (2.22) the Queen mother is shown tyre production, shots of her in conversation with male workers (3.03) visiting party walk alongside building outside, shielded from rain by umbrellas (3.12) -blank- [BBC TELEVISION countdown leader] (3.31) Queen Mother waves to watching crowds as she enters building under canopied walkway (3.39) ints huge interior factory warehouse shots, crowds of employees await the Queen Mother's visit, shots of her talking to some (4.06) tyre manufacture, shots as before, shots of cameramen preparing equipment (4.20) Queen Mother exits car and waves to crowds of flag-waving children (4.26) shots of her admiring display of china dolls (4.38) shot of people in wheelchairs doing carpentry (4.50)