FILM OF CORONATION.
SCENES IN THE ABBEY. SHOWN THE SAMg NIGHT. Official permission has been given for filming the Coronation ceremony inside Westminster Abbey by newsreel cameras on May 12. Following negotiations between the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, Sir Gordon Craig, of British Movietone News, and Mr W. J. Gell, of the Pathe Gazette, six cameras will be admitted —the first time in Abbey history.
The films will be' subject to the approval of the Primate and the Earl Marshal at a private view on the afternoon of Coronation Day.
They will then be despatched—where necessary by air—to more than 4.000 cinemas in Britain for showing the same night and to foreign countries.
It is probable that a highly sensitive kind of film will be used because of the dim lighting, in the Abbey. Cameras will be silent and hidden from view. The preservation of the films as a permanent historical record is also being considered, but there may be certain technical difficulties.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20183, 1 May 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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