Halls of Kings: Westminster Abbey

Duration: 55

Year Published: 1967

Creator: American Broadcasting Company

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Takes the viewer on an extensive tour of Westminster Abbey--its plaques, tombs, statuary, arches, stained glass windows--and simultaneously recalls the history and drama entombed within this vast national monument. Presents the reading of inscriptions on plaques and tombs, and selections from political, military, and literary greats. Dramatizes the performances in vignettes from the lives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Queen Victoria as the Westminster Abbey choir sings selections from Handel.

Complete Record: Takes the viewer on an extensive tour of Westminster Abbey--its plaques, tombs, statuary, arches, stained glass windows--and simultaneously recalls the history and drama entombed within this vast national monument. Presents the reading of inscriptions on plaques and tombs, and selections from political, military, and literary greats. Dramatizes the performances in vignettes from the lives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Queen Victoria as the Westminster Abbey choir sings selections from Handel., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.