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(28 Oct 1946)
CUTS FOR STORY NUMBER 47661 - Dawn shots - arrival at New York, fire launches playing water lines, etc. Men playing deck game. Skyline of New York - silhouette, dawn breaking. Frances Day signing autograph on back of sailor. Frances drinking a pint of beer with a sailor. BBC interviewer Vaughan Thomas speaks to chef. Crew crowded around. Deck tennis - Lord Rothermere plays. Group of people speaking on telephones at a desk. CU of two women speaking into telephones. LS of large group of men posing for photograph on deck. Fire floats escorting ship. Ship arriving in New York. On bridge - various shots of crew at work. Soviet passengers on bridge, Molotov at the wheel being instructed by Sir James Bissett. Interior - lounge - people sit and chat. Various shots of people in lounge. Switchboard operators at work - MS and CU. Wake of ship seen from deck. Shots on deck. Deck tennis. Arrival in New York.
STORYLINE:
Movietone travelled on the Queen Elizabeth as she crossed the Atlantic on her Maiden Voyage.
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(28 Oct 1946)
CUTS FOR STORY NUMBER 47661 - Dawn shots - arrival at New York, fire launches playing water lines, etc. Men playing deck game. Skyline of New York - silhouette, dawn breaking. Frances Day signing autograph on back of sailor. Frances drinking a pint of beer with a sailor. BBC interviewer Vaughan Thomas speaks to chef. Crew crowded around. Deck tennis - Lord Rothermere plays. Group of people speaking on telephones at a desk. CU of two women speaking into telephones. LS of large group of men posing for photograph on deck. Fire floats escorting ship. Ship arriving in New York. On bridge - various shots of crew at work. Soviet passengers on bridge, Molotov at the wheel being instructed by Sir James Bissett. Interior - lounge - people sit and chat. Various shots of people in lounge. Switchboard operators at work - MS and CU. Wake of ship seen from deck. Shots on deck. Deck tennis. Arrival in New York.
STORYLINE:
Movietone travelled on the Queen Elizabeth as she crossed the Atlantic on her Maiden Voyage.
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