BBC Television - Trooping the Colour - 7 June 1951

[oldtvhistory]

This kinescope footage looks quite good with the tones and contrast, makes it easy to imagine how this footage would of looked live or recorded to 2 inch quad videotape! This is something worth putting through the VidFIRE process!

[laleelala]

Guardsmen were on the whole taller then and a lot smarter..i followed my Dad and my uncles into the Irish Guards..Defence cuts and the dropping of the height restrictions...tut..

[nylonTS]

I have just watched the parde today and im sure the parade is getting smaller by the year

there is a lot more Guardsmen on this video than there was today about half I think less than 1000

[aptsarchive]

@nylonTS I suppose smaller parades are a consequence of government cut-backs!

[nylonTS]

@aptsarchive yes i think your right i thought the same

Thank TS

[charliesacoolkid]

@nylonTS its smaller also because the royal horse artillery aren't there because of an infection outbreak among the horses

[nylonTS]

@charliesacoolkid Hi No Im talking about the Foot Guards on parde this week there were seven Guards If you look at 1992 its Eleven guards who Trooped the Colour

[charliesacoolkid]

@nylonTS ah right might be due to soldier tours in afghanistan? but either way you're right its alot smaller than it used to be. :(

[BritainF0rever]

@nylonTS At the moment there is 1100 Guardsmen on Parade, 300 horses and 400 musicians, exactly the same :)

[tom24239891]

@nylonTS

after the 1st reduction in force when the Gren Gds, Cold Gds and Scots Gds lost there 2nd Battalions it went from 8 guards on parade to 6 guards

[Dojocho]

when I was a boy I saw this and told my mom I wanted to be a horse guard...she told me that would be hard for I am Japanese.....I was so sad.

[GaryGib96]

why couldnt the King be there ?

[aptsarchive]

@GaryGib96 As it says in the description, he was seriously ill due to lung cancer (although that wasn't known at the time). He had a lung removed in September 1951 and died of a thrombosis the following February.

[GoodCourage]

That was the first time I have ever seen the Queen salute during the national anthem But, of course she --as princess -- was saluting her father as King. It was his anthem before it was hers. She has been head of state so long it is really strange to see a time when she wasn't.

[chugalug7392]

Wow, so unchanged and yet so different! I remember that HMQ was shown, in colour, saluting in this uniform at the end of every cinema performance as the audience stood to attention for the National Anthem. What a knowledgeable yet concise commentary too! No non stop blather about special salutes and difficulties of the marching surface, just interesting and pertinent facts. Oh for a return to such output again from our dear aunt! As to Her Majesty, doing her duty superbly well then as ever.

[324wilson]

GOD BLESS OUR QUEEN!!!

[TashkentFox]

Why is the national anthem played so slowly these days?

[RICHIEPR63]

the queen used to look magnificent in full uniform

[aptsarchive]

Many thanks for your comments.

I agree with you, it's not the same with the Queen in a carriage!

[mig25pd]

Thankyou. This is great.

Back in the 60s my father had an old record of the Trooping of the Colour - I played it and played it and played it until I knew every discernable command and each Regimental slow and quick march (and a trip to the library gave me the details of each uniform).

I so wanted to serve in the Brigade of Guards - but the late 60s and early 70s got the better of me and being 'clever' I ended up in Law. Wished I had served in the Guards instead.

[AssociatedBroadcast]

Thank you for sharing history with us all. Great clip

[noskcajluap]

This is Brilliant! Is there more? Can we get more?

[aptsarchive]

Thanks for your comment. I'm afraid there isn't anymore of Trooping the Colour, but there is always vintage footage being uploaded virtually every day.

[TheBritishWatcher]

great footage, thanks for uploading.

[aptsarchive]

Thanks for your comments.

[emptyangel]

Damn, makes me wish I was there to witness it all.

Gone are the days...

[aptsarchive]

Many thanks for your comment. The clip does make for fascinating viewing - happy days!!!