NOTES: B LOCATION: LONDON TITLE: LADY CHURCHILL OBIT (NATSOF) SERVICED DATE: 12/12/77 NO: LNC 85011 DATE SHOT: 12/12/77 LENGTH: 68FT SECONDS: 109SEC SOUND: (NATSOF) DATE OF ARRIVAL:
NOTES: B
LOCATION: LONDON
TITLE: LADY CHURCHILL OBIT (NATSOF)
SERVICED DATE: 12/12/77
NO: LNC 85011
DATE SHOT: 12/12/77
LENGTH: 68FT
SECONDS: 109SEC
SOUND: (NATSOF)
DATE OF ARRIVAL:
FILM SHOWS: STILLS OF THE YOUNG LADY CHURCHILL: NEWSPAPER HEADLINE ANNOUNCING WEDDING: LADY CHURCHILL WALKING THROUGH BOMB SITE: VISITING BABY AT HOSPITAL: MAKING SPEECH ABOUT SIR WINSTON: A PORTRAIT OF LADY CHURCHILL: SHE AND WINSTON LOOKING AT IT: AUDIENCE APPLAUDING: WINSTON KISSING LADY CHURCHILL: WINSTON AND LADY CHURCHILL TAKING LEAVE OF QUEEN AND PRINCE PHILLIP: CROWD: LADY AND WINSTON WAVING FROM WINDOW: STILL OF LADY CHURCHILL.
LEAD IN: LADY SPENCER CHURCHILL, THE 92-YEAR-OLD WIDOW OF BRITAIN'S WARTIME LEADER SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, HAS DIED.
SHE DIED SUDDENLY OF A HEART ATTACK AT HER KENSINGTON HOME ON MONDAY (12 DECEMBER).
ALTHOUGH SHE HAD BEEN FRAIL IN HEALTH FOR SOME TIME SHE HAD NO HISTORY OF HEART TROUBLE, HER GRANDSON WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID.
FEET R/SECS
2 3 CU YOUNG LADY CHURCHILL
12 19 CU YOUNG LADY CHURCHILL PULL OUT TO SHOW SIR WINSTON
15 24 CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE ANNOUNCING WEDDING
17 27 LS LADY CHURCHILL ON BOMB SITE
20 32 MS LADY CHURCHILL VISITS BABY IN HOSPITAL
36 58 MS LADY CURCHILL MAKING SPEECH ABOUT SIR WINSTON
38 61 MCU PORTRAIT OF LADY CHURCHILL
41 65 MS WINSTON AND LADY LOOK AT PROTRAIT
43 69 GV CROWD APPLAUD
46 74 MS WINSTON KISSES LADY CHURCHILL
55 88 MS WINSTON AND LADY ON DOORSTEP OF NO 10 WITH QUEEN AND PHILLIP
58 93 GV CROWD SHOT
COMMENTARY: SIR WINSTON'S "DARLING CLEMMIE" DIED AS AN EXHIBITION OF HER DAUGHTER SARAH'S PAINTINGS OF SIR WINSTON OPENED IN LONDON. CHURCHILL FINISHED HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WRITING THAT HE MARRIED CLEMENTINE OGILVY HOZIER AND LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
SHE MARRIED HIM IN 1908 AND WAS HIS CONSTANT COMPANION UNTIL HIS DEATH AT THE AGE OF 90 IN 1965.
AS THE GREAT WARTIME LEADER ROSE TO DOMINATE HIS TIME, CLEMMIE GREW TO TAKE A PLACE BESIDE HIM IN THE HEARTS OF HER COUNTRYMEN AND WOMEN EVERYWHERE AS THE WORLD KNEW WINNIE IT KNEW CLEMMIE.
SOUND UP
LADY CHURCHILL: YOU SAID JUST NOW THAT
YOU WONDERED HOW MY HUSBAND DID IT ALL
WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHY...HOW HE DOES
IT. IT'S BECAUSE HE ENJOYS IT ALL. HE
LIKES EVERYTHING THAT HE DOES. AND SOME
TIMES I SAY TO HIM IN A SORT OF WIFELY
WAY, 'WHY DON'T YOU DO THAT. I
THINK YOU OUGHT TO DO THAT?' AND HE
SAYS, 'WELL I DON'T WANT TO YOU SEE. I
WANT TO DO SOMETHING (HAPPY?).'
SSDSOUND DOWN
LYWILTWTSWSSDCLEMMIE, WHO WAS AN EXCELLENT PUBLIC SPEAKER, BECAME ALMOST AS WELL KNOWN TO THE ENGLISH AS THE QUEENS VICTORIA THROUGH TO ELIZABETH, WHO ALL KNEW THE WOMAN WHO STOOD BEHIND THE MAN WHO OFFERED BRITAIN IN ITS DARKEST MOMENT THE INSPIRATION FOR ITS FINEST HOUR. IN 1965 QUEEN ELIZABETH, WHO HAD VISITED THE CHURCHILLS AT NUMBER 10, GRANTED CLEMMIE A LIFE PEERAGE.
FEET R/SECS
64 102 CU WINSTON AND LADY CHURCHILL AT WINDOW
68 109 CU STILL LADY CHURCHHILL
COMMENTARY: CHURCHILL DELIGHTED IN HIS WIFE'S PUBLIC SUCCESS AND IN HIS LAST YEARS SHE WORKED HARD TO SUSTAIN HIS PUBLIC IMAGE AND MAKE HIM FEEL THE WORLD HAD NOT FORGOTTEN HIM. IN THE LATER YEARS SHE SUFFERED FAMILY TRAGEDIES INCLUDING THE SUICIDE OF HER DAUGHTER DIANA AND DEATH OF HER SON RANDOLPH. SHE LEAVES HER DAUGHTERS ACTRESS SARAH AND LADY MARY SOAMES, WIFE OF BRITAIN'S FORMER AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE SIR CHRISTOPHER SOAMES.