BBC Newsreel (29 Dec 1952) (NO AUDIO)

1. ‘Christmas Came and Brought Good Cheer’. This long item features scenes of Christmas celebrations, festivities and seasonal sporting events, including churchgoers entering a church, swimmers braving the Serpentine in Hyde Park for the Serpentine Swimming Club Christmas morning race, horsemen and women gathering in a town square with hounds for a fox hunt,
motorcyclists participating in a motorbike scrambling race and contestants in fancy dress competing in a pram race, including one pair dressed in costume as a house (?) and a television set. The item concludes with shots of a horse race on a beach in an unidentified seaside town.
2. ‘United States. The New Checks on Immigrants’. Various shots of the crew on board the French ocean liner SS Liberté.
3. ‘All The World’s a Stage’. The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Touring Company, led by Anthony Quayle, are to appear in New Zealand and Australia. This newsreel item includes the curtain call from Henry IV Part One, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, with Quayle as Sir John Falstaff, as well as footage of Quayle removing his make-up and actress Barbara Jefford, who played Lady Percy, backstage after the performance. The item also features shots of the cast on board the ship as they prepare to leave for a tour of New Zealand and Australia, including Keith Michell, Ian Bannen, Zena Walker, Leo McKern (in passport queue), Terence Longdon, Peter Halliday and Anthony Quayle with his wife Dorothy Hyson and their daughters.