Princess Elizabeth Opens Sailors Home (1944)

Item title reads - Princess opens sailors’ home. Aberdeen, Scotland. M/S of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) makes speech then opens the Merchant Seamen’s Home. Everyone applauds. Cataloguer’s note: the sound is slightly out of sync in the speech. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.