Royal Wedding 1947

From the collection of

London’s Screen Archives
London’s Screen Archives is a network of over 50 organisations with a collective vision – to preserve and share London’s history on film. The network is managed by Film London and we work with our partners to digitise, preserve, and offer access to their moving image collections.

Royal Wedding 1947


This amateur marvelous monochrome manifestation of the 1947 royal wedding was shot from within the watching crowd outside Westminster Abbey. Then, black-and-white gives way to colour: people anxiously anticipating the arrival of their sovereign, before a brief but fulfilling shot of the car carrying the people of the hour as it passes the animated assemblage. Finally, a concluding sequence capturing the expansive Abbey in its full beauty.


Tags