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Topical Budget 609-2: The Royal Wedding (1923)
 

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Production CompanyTopical Film Company
Camera OperatorMartin Benson
 E. Bool
 Albert Bloomfield
 Oscar Bovill

The wedding of the future George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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The second royal wedding of the 1920s was that between the King and Queen's second son, the Duke of York (the future King George VI) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, his future Queen. Topical's coverage, for which nineteen cameramen were used, is an accomplished mixture of sentimentality, spectacle and astute camera placement and editing. The inevitable final balcony scene features an ingenious, apparently royal point-of-view shot.

Luke McKernan

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Topical Budget 874-2: A Social Centre (1928)
Topical Budget: Royalty