The Archive · 1937

CORONATION FILMS

The Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation have placed: fiimgoers—especially {hose of the British com~ munity—under @ real obligation by the promptitude with which they have been able to secure news-reel films of the Coronation ceremonies, including a perfectly—beautiful technicolour series, for presentation at the Grand Theatre. Owing to the lack of light in the Abbey itself it was not possible to photograph the actual ceremonies in technicolor but, despite the rainy weather out-sid excellent coloured photographs of-the street scenes wore secured, thus pleasantly and richly "supplementing the black-and-white filming of the proceedings in the Abbey. Mr. Lowell Thomas, whose running commentary is always so precise yet graphic, fils in the details to make the whole production exceptionally Interesting. It is accompanied camera retrospect" of the House of Windsor which supplies a Atting prologue to a dignified commemoraton of a historic event.

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