Fulham Man's 3D Footage of Queen on TV Tonight

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3D specs available in Sainsbury's Townmead Road

A Fulham man will be donning 3D specs tonight to watch footage he took of the Queen in 1953 being broadcast on TV for the first time ever.

Bob Angell, 87 was a young filmmaker working alongside his friend Arthur Wooster, now 80, when he began filming the Queen in her Coronation year, using a pioneering technique which involved blending film from two separate cameras into one image.

Bob, then 31, filmed the Queen in a golden coach going to her Coronation on June 2, 1953, and on a trip down the Thames on a royal barge and at the Epsom Derby.

" The camera loved her," says Bob, of the Queen, who was then 27.

The film, which cost £3,000 to produce was intended to be used as Pathe newsreel, but was never shown as the 3D film market collapsed with the advent of television.

It lay unused in the British Film Institute's archives until it was rediscovered by David Wooster, Arthur's son and also a filmmaker.

David, who knew nothing of the film until his father mentioned it to him, says: "It is like a little time capsule."

When the Queen heard about the footage, the two men were invited to relive their roles and take some new 3D film of her at a Buckingham Palace garden party and by the river at Windsor.

Bob told the Daily Mail: " It was very emotional. The way she stepped from the boat and then walked past the camera was almost exactly the same as all those years ago. It was like turning back time."

The footage, old and new, is included in the two part programme Royal Review, appearing on Channel Four tonight, Monday November 16 and Tuesday November 17 at 9pm.

If you want to watch the footage in its full glory, plus other 3D programes during C4's specdial 3D week, pick up a free pair of coloured 3D specs at Sainsbury's in Townmead Road.

November 16, 2009