Summary
A massed display of maypole dancing by schoolgirls at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the visit by Queen Elizabeth II.
ACMI holds a film, [The Royal Tour of Australia], which includes a scene where girls 'participate in an exhibition of maypole dancing at the MCG for the Queen and Prince Philip'. The ACMI record continues: 'A highlight [of the film] is an event at the MCG in Melbourne in which 17,000 children participated. At one point, the excited children break rank and surround the royals jeep to get a closer view so that Prince Philip starts to shoo them out of the way of the vehicle.'
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A massed display by school children at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the visit by Queen Elizabeth II. The display features maypoles.
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Copied from Miss Edna B. Usher, 22 Oct 1990
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Place & Date Depicted
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Jolimont, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Mar 1954
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Negative, 35 mm, Black & White
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