Guards Celebrate Kings Birthday (1949)

Full title reads: Guards Celebrate King s Birthday. Introductory intertitle reads: Trooping the Colour returns to London with PreWar Brilliance. Horseguard s Parade, London. 1st Battalion Welsh Guards Troop the Colour First time in Full Dress since the War GV Elevated Horseguards Parade guards lined up awaiting King s arrival. GV King and escort driving across parade ground. CU Pan King George VI driving across parade ground. SV Crowd. LV Elevated King inspecting troops. SV King inspecting troops saluting. King and Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) salute. CU Pan King inspecting troops. LV Elevated King and escort filing back to dais. LV Elevated King and escort driving back to dais. He stands to leave carriage. SV Crowd. SV King standing on dais. Elizabeth, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and officers ride to his side. CU Elizabeth. LV band counter march in slow time. CU The King sitting down watching. MV Band counter marching in slow time. SV Highranking officers in full