Queen Goes To Ghana (1961)

Item title reads - Queen goes to Ghana. Despite recent bombing the royal trip to Ghana goes ahead. L/S of market scene in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Various shots of colourful materials. Ladies walk across the road with baskets balanced on their heads, M/S as cars drive down the road. C/U showing advert for newspaper with leader - 'Bomb outrage on President's statue.' M/S of statue of President Kwame Nkrumah surrounded by scaffolding, C/U of the damaged feet which have been re-plastered. M/S as aeroplane flies over carrying Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys who is coming to decide if the trip is safe. M/S of Accra airport, Sandys walks down the plane steps and is met by Ghanaian Foreign Secretary, photographs are taken as they walk along together. L/S of big arch with 'Freedom and Justice' engraved in the top. Various shots of Sandys with President Nkrumah, they walk along and look at the statue of the President now with its new feet. M/S of busy street scene, the President and Sandys t