"SIXTY YEARS A QUEEN."

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1914, Page 3

"SIXTY YEARS A QUEEN."

In producing to-night at The King's Theatre the great educational film, "Sixty. Years a Queen," the management is presenting a subjeofc which aroused the keenest competition amongst film buyers ever known in Britain. Haywards have secured it, and its firefc presentation m Wellington takes place to-night. The picture illustrates in motion photography the life and reign of the late Queen Victoria, and covers the period from 1837 't0 1901. It introduces all the most notaßle events of ihat record reign. To have -attempted such an illustration was a gigantic task, but all who have seen the kiriematograph record recognise ' that ifc has been magnificently accomplished.- The accuracy of the picture as regards historic events is said to be absolute. To ensure this accuracy every possible assistance was freely given to the makers by the various Imperial and State authorities. The film is 111 7000 ft of pictures, and, briefly put, it may bo regarded as a pictorial history of the British Empire for sixty-four years. It closed a record season at Auckland on Saturday night. An explanatory lecture by *Mr. Barrio Marschel, the well-known raconteur, will accompany the unfolding. Appropriate music will^be rendered by The King's orchestra. "Seats for tho season of six nights and one matinee may be reserved at the Dresden.