Radio Times: Review by:; David Butcher

There are touching and evocative scenes among this week’s home movies about the Queen. Nothing calls up a sense of the past like the shaky framing and faded colours of old Super-8. Sadly, the programme-makers don’t trust their own material so they ladle on a backwash of sentimental music to make sure we get the emotional point.

The result is like a delicate 1970s cheesecake drowned in strawberry syrup, but we can still enjoy the wonderful shots of the 1977 jubilee celebrations, with their tugs of war, sack races and suburban congas.

We also see a brilliant clip of the 20-something Queen on her first official overseas visit with sailors on the deck of HMS Vanguard. She’s playing “It”.

About this programme

Home-movie footage of the monarch shot by members of the public over the past 60 years.

Cast and crew

Crew

Director: Stuart Ramsay
Executive Producer: Mark Robinson
Producer: Stuart Ramsay

Categories: Documentary

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