ROYAL FAMILY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24103, 23 October 1941, Page 10

ROYAL FAMILY

SHORT FILM RECORD WAR ACTIVITIES DEPICTED (0.C.) LONDON", Sept. 16 A short film ha« been made bv the British Movietone News, with the cooperation of the British Council which has the Royal Family as its subject and inspiration. Jt does not need the cinema to underline the burden the King and Queen have to bear iti tin>e of war, but it is good to be reminded of the work that has been done and will continue to be done by those to whom the Empire looks as its symbol of unit v.

Navy, Army, Air Force and Home Guard, all these pass in review before the King, but there are other forces which make for victory in this war. The factory is among them —the King has always /been interested in industrial questions—and there is also the welfare of women and children, where the Queen is in the foreground. The screen swiftly surveys these and many other activities, and dwells for a moment on the tours the King and Queen have mado of the bombed areas. But the shots that will probably be most valued by the public are those which show Their Majesties and the Princesses in their everyday life. A number of dogs play about, there_ is some momentary trouble over a stitch dropped in Princess Margaret's knitting. and the audience is left wifh the feeling that it understands a little more about the realities behind the phrase. "The Royal House of Windsor."