Scenes at Balmoral (1896)
This is the first film to feature a British monarch. The film, with its original colour tinting restored, includes footage of Queen Victoria, Tsar Nicholas II and Turi, the Queen s Pomeranian. Queen Victoria and members of her family were filmed at Balmoral by the son of royal photographer W Downey on 3 October 1896. Downey used a camera made by the firm s employee TJ Harrison, which ran 60mm film to make the first moving pictures of Victoria. The film also features Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra,
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