England and Scotland

[Music] [Applause] welcome to the world of transor Airline [Music] London in shakespear's time a grubby little place one square mile in area whose Gates were pulled shut against the world at sundown London today one of the world's largest and greatest cities cordial host to visitor from all the world and our open gateway to England and [Music] Scotland to those of you who have made this flight before as well as those of you who plan to make this trip welcome to the world of Transworld Airlines you'll find it's a world of many facets and every conceivable Comfort on international flights you can travel first class as a royal ambassador attended by two hostesses and a Purser whatever you may desire from cocktails and a variety of wonderful ores to the last word in dinner service here it is with the roast served directly from the cart after a variety of appetizers and soups of course you may also select one of several other Andre cooked to your special order and on your Star Stream jet steaks are broy to your order right on the plan [Music] from tww Starstream wine seller the very finest in domestic and imported wines and for those of you who choose the Comforts of pwa's lowcost economy service your food is just as hot and just as well prepared and served your wines and other beverages are served with your meal directly from the cart for a nominal charge you'll be the first to agree that this is truly a Wonderful World when you travel as a welcome guest of [Music] tww In First Class the dessert tray a variety of cheeses and fresh fruits not to mention cordials and brandies to touch off a fine [Music] dinner how long since takeoff you're all already hundreds of miles nearer your destination after dinner for a small charge an innovation that was pioneered by tww inlight Motion Pictures both in first class and in the economy section as you sit back and enjoy a first run film may we thank you for traveling with us welcome to the world of Transworld Airlines destination London certainly one of the world's truly great cities for those who would travel the globe a visit to this wonderful City on the temps has to be a highlight rarely if ever to be surpassed no matter where you might travel London is a huge magnet attracting increasing thousands each year to share the wonders of its past and and present to many a traveler Tower Bridge is the very essence of London Conjuring up a memory of kings and queens of soldiers and Statesmen of British history and literature the Tower of London a medieval Relic in a modern city once a prison and death house for kings queens and courtiers today a repository for the crown jewels and a treasure House of English History open to the public yman warders more often called beefeaters a term properly reserved for the yman of the royal guard are the tower custodians through this gate walked Queen an Bolin the Earl of Essex Sir Walter Raleigh to prison and death Westminster Abbey revered symbol of Empire here is where Royal coronations are held Within These hallowed walls lie buried many of England's monarchs great writers and artists whose lives have shed luster on her name St Paul's Cathedral architectural Masterpiece of Sir Christopher Ren Rebuilder of London after the great fire of 1666 from the old and venerable to the new and utilitarian the post office tower Rising 620 ft into the air and dominating London's newly emerging Skyline it has a revolving restaurant and an observation platform that gives us a superb view of the [Music] city during the war London was the top Target of thousands of German bombs but we see barely a trace of the rubble and ruin as this great rebuilt City reaches for the sky traler square and this imposing Monument to Britain's greatest naval hero Lord Nelson who looks down on London life swirling around his domain here is a mixed population of people and hungry Pig there are almost as many tourists as native londoners these days as for the bird life of Trafalgar Square these British pigeons seem to be as plump and pampered as their Italian cousins of patas and Marco in Venice a short stroll to padil Circus Hub of London radiating from here our busy streets with shops and theaters the entertainment and shopping center of London foreigners especially Americans are usually surprised at London's tremendous subway system known here as the underground they think of subways as something you find only in New York or Paris not so the same crowds at rush hours the same hurry and Scurry but perhaps a little more polite British Style Picadilly station would be about equivalent to Time Square in New York with flavor also added by spectacular electric signs the business day is done and padelli blazes through the dark making London an exciting town from sun down to Sun up a return to the more State side of London life Buckingham Palace the home of the royal family in London which magnificently epitomizes the Splendor of Royal London the day's Pomp and pageantry begins with The Changing of the Guard a site you've probably seen many times before in movies and on television or perhaps in person yet it's always exciting to britishers and foreigners alike here is Europe's greatest free show a spectacle that moves and thrills you no matter how often [Music] seen at about the same time in a part of London known as White Hall there's another colorful ceremony the changing of the horse guards at exactly 11:00 the new guard rides through horse guard's Arch [Music] the horse guard Sentry bound to duty stiff and still spurred boots in Stirrup irons on [Music] alert back at Buckingham Palace new guard posted the Old Guard relieved of Duty to those of us with a love for England this celebrated ceremony with its parade of color and music is as inspiring as it is impressive this is like watching the enactment of a page out of English History and something you may not know these Scarlet jackets were once the fighting uniforms of British soldiers in the ranks this is the way they went into battle these The Dread Red Coats of the American Revolution and throughout the world world of the British Empire two and 300 years ago today still soldiers of the realm still bearing arms in the British army wearing this ancient and honorable dress only when on guard Duty for the Sovereign the free speech center of London orators Corner in Hyde Park anything goes and no interference from anyone except of course the hecklers in the crowd personal grievances politics economics the state of morals anything and everything including religion new and old and some you never heard of an open air Pulpit for these latterday Apostles of impending doom who cry out for repentance and promise the fires of hell if you desist exhort the devil you Sinners for doomsday is just around the corner [Music] 62 miles out of London is blenham Palace birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill he now rests in the unpretentious graveyard of the ancestral Church visitors from over all the Seas come here to pay their respects to this man of the century resting under a modest headstone no greater Monument needed to tell the world that a great man is buried [Music] here one of the memories of Motoring in England is the transition before your very eyes from the 20th century to centuries past the green Countryside the quaint old Anglo-Saxon towns [Music] we have come to Portsmouth anchored permanently at the waterfront of Portsmouth is Lord Nelson's old Flagship HMS Victory symbol of a glorious tradition and a time when Britannia ruled the waves this ship led the way against combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar you drive across Wilshire to the med town of Salsbury where you stop to record a breathtaking moment of your English Journey The Majestic Salsbury Cathedral crowned by the most awesome Spire in all of [Music] Christendom here on the Salsbury plane is one of the great Unsolved Mysteries of mankind Stonehedge 1700 BC popular belief says it was the shrine of Druids a Priestly sect whose worship called for Human Sacrifice you'll find that England is a land of holiday Seekers from Brighton in Sussex along the Southern Coastline and up the west of Cornwall stretches a long line of beaches and Bays where you'll find thousands of English families on holiday refugees from the work a day world of the city through the warm summer months of June July and [Music] August this is as far west as you can go in England Lands End in Cornwall a legend haunted Promontory that is about as rugged a combination of land and Seascape as you are likely to find anywhere on Earth that's the booming Atlantic out there and 3,000 Mi straight ahead on the opposite Shore is North [Music] America now we're driving again over the well surfaced roads of the English Countryside passing through British detective mystery country The Bleak Moors of dark [Music] Moore we've come north of the Border across the Tweed River to need we tell you this land of pipes and Kilts of tartans and plaids of a burr in the speech and a pride of place this home of Scots called Scotland Scottish games the test of a man's strength the measure of a man's speed and endurance that's what we've come to see at the field day of the Thornton Highland Gathering elsewhere in Scotland you'll see many such Gatherings at various times of the year and always crowds to watch and cheer a winner athletic events of every kind in which the men of the clan [Applause] compete and then comes the dancing there'd be no Scotland were there no Highland fling or perhaps is the other way around But whichever way it is there's no more lively and stirring Sight and Sound the skirling pipes and the bunny Lads and [Music] [Applause] lasses to those who truly visit here there is Melrose Abbey in the lowlands of Scotland on the Tweed in roxburg Shire We join a group of tourists and their guide who tells us that these are the ruins of a once magnificent Scottish Monastery built originally in 1136 twice destroyed in Warfare twice rebuilt today it is a National Shrine in which the heart of a Scottish King lies buried Robert the Bruce one of Scotland's greatest [Music] heroes this enchanting Vista is in the heart of Sir Walter Scott country here before us is the land of his great poems and novels marmian Lady of the Lake Rob Roy ivanho kennworth and many others that recreate the spirit of great events and paint word pictures of historic Scottish [Music] life abbottford the mansion Scott built from the proceeds of his writings but he died a poor man burdened by debts he lies buried here on amid the ruins of drberg Abbey we have come to the mecca of every golfer in the world there are fine and famous courses but none to surpass St Andrews in feire and its Royal and ancient Golf Club founded in 1774 golf as we know it today was born in Scotland and the Scots were playing long before the Mayflower set sail from England to America in 1620 St Andrews is the international Shrine of golf and its basic rules are accepted throughout the world there are hundreds of courses available from one end of Scotland to the other and of course the British Open tournament began here in 1860 27 miles from St Andrews is the City of Edinburgh capital of Scotland and a queenly city indeed this was once the seat of Scottish royalty and the main stage on which was played the violent and often bloody drama of Scotland's early history since those turbulent days Edinburgh has settled down today she is one of the great cities of Britain the Athens of the north even to its own Acropolis Castle Rock and its own Parthenon Edinburg Castle a huge and imposing Fortress Palace that dominates the city with all the changes that have come about in Scotland one facet of the national character remains constant Scottish pride of Royal Heritage and love of traditional pageantry here is one of the most interesting sites of Edinburgh the roots of which go deep into Brit history and tradition and so today on the wide expanse of parade ground before Edinburgh Castle we are witness to an impeccably executed Changing of the Guard and to the march of military men and arms Royal Scottish Style [Music] South again to England and to the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon in Oxfordshire Monument to the Transcendent Genius of the immortal Bard it is a profound and moving experience to visit Stratford birthplace of William Shakespeare to see the house he lived in and to visit the thatched cottage of Anne Hathaway the girl he [Music] loved it is even more impressive to realize that people come to Stratford to honor not a king or a famous Soldier but a poet and playwright William Shakespeare writer England is a small country and can easily be explored by train bus or motorc car then there is the journey by boat on the river temps it may take a little longer but what a different it makes in the pleasures of travel as you respond to the Sight and Sounds of rural England and on a pleasant summer day the Tims is a holiday Highway for rivercraft Laden with those who would become a part of a fine Voyage there are fishermen who line the banks barely looking up or pay us no mind at all as we Sail by on this leisurely Voyage there is time to make some background notes about the river itself its geography and its place in English History first on a point of navigation the temps rises in the katwal hills in the west flows to the Lower Valley then winds its way Eastward to London and onto the sea requiring the use of locks to raise and lower rivercraft from one level to the other long before the use of such modern devices as locks or indeed anything more modern than sails and ores on water or horses and carriages on land the river temps was a Main Avenue of transportation and even today from a tourist's point of view it is still just that for a Sentimental Journey Into the Heart of old England [Music] out of the pages of English History and literature step familiar names associated with this River as far back as the 1300s when Jeffrey choser author of the canterberry tales voted on the 10s and then 300 years later so did William Shakespeare how many of these tourists know that n Gwyn actress and Mistress of King Charles II rode her own boat along this very stretch of of the river and that many a monarch came up the temps from London to Windsor Castle for England is indeed a wonderful land of history of men of Brave and daring who shared the romance and development of this tight little aisle seen as a child Windsor Castle is like a picture out of a fairy tale seeing it as an adult it is everything you imag imag England would be the gray turrets of an ancient Fortress castle built by William the Conqueror almost a thousand years ago today Windsor serves as country home for the royal family the Royal Standard tells us that the queen is in [Music] residence for any visitor to Windsor there's the thrill of being witnessed to the ceremony of The Changing of the Guard whether this ceremony takes place in Buckingham Palace in Scotland or here at Windsor British tradition calls for this display of Royal prerogative this is the Britain of tradition at its colorful best we have timed our return to London for one of the Great public events of the year the Pomp and ceremony of the sovereign's birthday the trooping of the color although the celebration usually does not take place on the date of the sovereign's birth here is all the fire and panoply of festival and Grand Occasion a day of great rejoicing here rides the queen to inspect her foot soldiers and mounted guard and herself on display to her loyal subjects and those visitors who have come to pay their respects to the Queen of England on the parade grounds at whiteall the Troopers parade before their Queen the grenadiers the Coldstream the Scots the Irish and the Welsh supported by the household Cavalry maneuvering in a splendor of pageantry unmatched anywhere else on [Applause] Earth this is the Cavalcade of British arms the power of the British realm defended on all the Seas on all the continents of the Earth by the forbearers of The Men Who parade here [Music] today here is a spectacle of Sight and Sound never to be forgotten men and mounts in a splendor of pageantry whose roots are embedded deep in Britain's history through the course of an Empire on which the Sun never set here is the power and Glory of British Prestige thus is it today as it has been for centuries and you know that things such as this will never die as long as there is in England here is Devotion to Sovereign pride of nation in the words of The Bard of Avon this Royal Throne of Kings this sceptered aisle this precious stone set in the silver sea this Earth this realm this England to the world welcome to the world welcome to the world of world oh