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Ex-servicemen rally at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (1954)
Title:
Ex-servicemen rally at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (1954)
NFSA ID
23974
Year
1954
This home movie clip by Sir Robert Menzies, begins with an excited crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
They stand and take off their hats on the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, by car to the stadium. They drive past children waving flags and they meet the official party. They are lead up onto a stage where they address the crowd.
This clip captures the excitement of the 70,000 strong crowd waiting for the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Sir Robert captures the event with mainly wide shots and linked them together with in-camera editing. Although silent, no intertitles are used within this clip.
Curator
Elizabeth Taggart-Speers
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.