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Show TV millions saw more JW 77E SMILES Express Television Reporter ROBERT CANNELL A HIDDEN TVr camera peering' down over -t.he shoulder of (lie Archbishop of Canterbury Canter-bury in Westminster Abbey yesterday spread the Queen's smile across Britain into Europe and even behind the Iron Curtain into Berlin. the TV audience. Her first cur .sy was. r so haopened, to tn3 ir.ill.ons of v.ow e:s. Thn. near the end. there was the .siidd"n. dazilmg slio- 0: me Q::-- n s'anrl.ng surrounded bv her Maids of Honour, wailing to jo.ii -no procession into the a..-'.e. The cir- -s srm glistened, ti'.e jew Is .shone, thp whole scene glow uiiiorgei abl". Las' n ght y cvrrs all over Br:' Til were recalling the details wh cri the- alone could s-e the Queen rulll.ng the pages of her praver bo-k to find the r.shi place: a nervoa, Lord Chamber-la. Chamber-la. n tlirinlv grabbing 'he tray wi"n iiik'.iei; and pn afu-r 'he Ou"cn had signed 'he Oath: the Q i.-tVs right hand lifting suiiuenl;." as if to touch her hus'oairl as he paid homage and then falling back into her lap. Home again Out of the Abbey TV took vie'.v'rs '.vi' b the Queen through a ram-drenched London ail the wav home. Home to a never-to-be-tor-gitt. n picture of Princess Ann .snouting wuh glee as Prince Charles hammered at the balcony window, bellowing m small-boy delight: ' There's mummy's coach." As the S'ate Coach swung round the Victoria Memorial to eiver the Palace gates there came the closest picture of all. It was then that, the Queen smiled and bowed straight at the TV camera. Through the new-age medium she could bow to all her people at one time. Just before midniaht TV rounded off iff triumphant Coronation day with the perfect ending an unheralded return vist to the deserted, silent Abbey. Queen reached the A'obev she was seen to speak to Prince Philip at. ner side, gather her bouquet, more clo-ely, and ie.n forward to arrange her go.'. 11. So into the Abbey, where the bla.mg lights for the colour cameras in, every detail of the Corona ion theatre. Questing cameras showed peeie-.si's whispering to each Cher as they waited. They showed the rows of Commonwealth Common-wealth and foreign guests, their unilon.is and. evening dresses gleaming with orders and decorations. They showed the al'ar laden with gold and silver plate. Glorious gown And they showed the Queen. Here was the glorious gown wrh every detail clear. Her necklace, neck-lace, ear - rings and corunet sparkled for viewers. Even the lights shimmering on her hair were caught by the cameras. Above all, throughout the long service, the people for the first time stood in the heart of the sacred mysteries attending a Coronation. And when, in the cere-monv of the Recognition, she stood forth to be presented bv the archbishop arch-bishop in the sight of all the people, she first faced east and It was a moment just as the Queen was crowned which established the ri?iht of TV to an equal partnership in all state cocas-tons of the future. All through yesterday, inrle"d. TV set up brilliant new standards in linking the Crnwn with the people. 'tinny million viewers will recall how, 111 the Abbey hush, the archiii shop placed St. Edward's Crown on the young Queen's head, how she lifted her eyes and how. gently and shyly, she smiled. But inside the Abbev it was a secret, smile. Only the arch-biihop arch-biihop saw it. For the great chair of St. Edward hid the Queen from the congregation. Wait for film Viewers next saw a second smile from Prince Charles, standing between his grandmother, grand-mother, the Queen Mother, and his aunt. Princess Margaret. With his hair neatly blushed like any little boy at a party, Pr.nce diaries leaned on the edge of the royal box and smiled hugely across the Sanctuary Sanc-tuary to his mother as the bells peeied, the guns thundered, and the Abhey congregation roared "God Save the Queen." Again it was something the privileged, the well born, and the influential in the Abbev could not see. Their gilded invitations took them into the Abbey, but almost all of them had to wait for last night's telefilm tele-film to see a connected version of what happened, and the incidents which lit the solemn ritual. Yet those who sat before TV sets with their families virtually rode with the Queen through London and stood near to her in the ancient Abbey itself. The roar They were there for that first t,r rilling moment when the mighty London roar greeted the state coach rumbling across the torecourt of Buckingham Palace. The 40-inch lens of TV's " Long Tom " camera took viewers to the windows of the coach itself to see the first of the Queen's smiles as the cheers thundered up. This was rather an awed v smile, touched with wonder at the spectacle before her. When, 1 as viewers saw, she smiled again for the school children on Thames-side, it was a motherly sort of smile. In such subtleties the TV cameras had the advantage of all. As, for example, when the ' |
