AUSTRALIA: PRINCE CHARLES OPENING RSL NATIONAL CONGRESS, VISITING GEELONG GRAMMAR, INSPECTING WESTGATE DEVELOPMENT.
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AUSTRALIA: PRINCE CHARLES OPENING RSL NATIONAL CONGRESS, VISITING GEELONG GRAMMAR, INSPECTING WESTGATE DEVELOPMENT.
- Title: AUSTRALIA: PRINCE CHARLES OPENING RSL NATIONAL CONGRESS, VISITING GEELONG GRAMMAR, INSPECTING WESTGATE DEVELOPMENT.
- Date: 29th October 1974
- Summary: ROLL 1 CHARLES ARRIVES DAN AS BROOKS HALL, EAST MELBOURNE, FOR RSL NATIONAL CONGRESS, IS GREETED BY COUCH WHITLAM, ADDRESSED CONGRESS ON THE BENEFITS OF PEACE. GENERAL CROWD SHOTS,, MAG SOF CHARLES ADDRESSING GATHERING, SHOTS OF (LEFT TO RIGHT) WHITLAM, PREMIER DICK HAMER AND LORD MAYOR DONALD WALKER 150 ft ROLL 2 LUNCH AT GEELONG GRAMMAR WITH THE MASTERS AND STUDENTS OF GEELONG GRAMMAR, THE PRINCES OLD SCHOOL-PANS IN WITH HIM AS HE MARCHES INTO LUNCHROOM. THEN CHARLES KINCLING WITH STUDENTS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL (HE CAUSED QUITE A STIR!) THE HEADMASTER COMPLAINED AFTERWARDS THAT HE HOPED CHARLES WAS THE AST RECA VISITOR HE HAD FOR A LONG TIME 200 ft ROLL 3 TOUR OF THE WESTGATE BRIDGE, SCENE OF A MASSIVE DISASTER IN 1969 (31 deaths etc.) CHARLES WEARING THE COMPULSORY SAFETY HELMET, CHATTING AND JOINING WITH THE WORKMEN, INSPECTING THE UPPER REACHES OF THE EASTERN APPROACH WHICH FELL FIVE YEARS AGO. SHOTSOF THE MELBOURNE SKLINE FROM THE INCOMPLETE BRIDGE 100 ft ...???ALSING THAT TODAY WAS REALLY JUST A 'COVERING' DAY, THE FOOTAGE HAS BEEN KEPT TO ???INIMUM Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th November 1974 12:00
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- Location: MELBOURNE
- Country: Australia
- Reuters ID: LVA8LQ9P8RBS7F9X8W5ZCOKT879F
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