The Derby (1960)

L/S Epsom racecourse with crowds gathered around. Item title reads - The Derby. Technicolor, Pathe news. Epsom, Surrey. L/S cars driving through to the racecourse. C/U front of Rolls Royce, C/U chauffeur asleep inside. M/S man in top hat. M/S young woman with three parrots on her head and shoulders. M/S jockey tipster waving his arms. M/S gypsy fortune teller reading palm of young man. M/S Prince Monolulu in his tribal head dress giving speech about virtues of bookmakers. Various shots of bookmakers shouting odds. M/S as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Lord Rosebery walk into the paddock. M/S fashionable ladies and men watching. M/S as the Queen watches horses parade around paddock. C/U ’St. Paddy’. M/S Queen stood watching them before the race. L/S as jockeys enter and tip their hats to the Queen. M/S as Joe Mercer is helped up on to ’Chrysler the Third’. L/S crowded stands. M/S as the horses parade along the course. M/S film director Alfred Hitchcock with cigar in hand
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