Queen Mother Names Liner 1959

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Title reads: "Queen Mother names liner".

Birkenhead, Merseyside.

Various shots Queen Mother (Queen Elizabeth) on the dais with a representative of Cammell Laird's Shipyard. C/U Queen Mother being handed champagne bottle, she swings it back, lets it go and it crashes onto the bow of...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
51096
Sort Number:
59/052
Time in/Out:
01:22:21:00 / 01:23:05:00
Canister:
59/52
Film ID:
1587.16
Issue Date:
29/06/1959

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