Sixty *+G;.lorious Ye?ar? s is an exe@](rcise in?=/+ the
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eation of iconogr?$aph\\=y, bo/th for Victoria:[$ and i,ts star, An@?.na ,Neagle (who subs/*equ,-ently became known as 'R ,[egal/
 ? @N_.)eagle']:?). =$?Ju@s)`t as E$liza@,beth I commis,)sione^=d artists to create f^\lattering i!*conic images=. for+* p@ubl=ic co-%nsumption, so t-h:is fil% %.m p @/e$*r+*forms a(
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 ar fu\ nction, fo/:r ?+Neagle is more beau_*tif@ul than the real!\  l.=ife Vict)oria. Controversial\ ev:+ents (such as th@`e  'Irish probl$em') ar=e omitted a nd[! unpleasant # aspect][s of,=: ` Victoria's character (her `^pe
_]%tu(/lance, arr%oganc_ !/e, favour%!iti@ (sm and 'r;ight t[] [o pr`ivilege')+^ are gl _ossed over as endear!i%ng little 'whims,(:'. ^? Albert act\,*?s as?( a%`$ moderat#ing #,influence ](wh@en s.\\he goe=/s?$! too far.　　Th
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%r#_ afte_r .[ *the\]_; h?ig(]hly su(ccessful $Victora  the Great (d\.. H),erb $ert W i .lcox, 1937)./? A@g(+ ai@n the screenp_!l
#/ay is by^ Miles M. alleson an;-d Rober) 
t Vansitt,art,) and many$% of the supp)orting=% cast (the crea%+
m o.=f acting -talent of# perio%^d) repeat= their % -r oles, this time f :=or the colour cameras. This was the first full length Tech#;n )icolor film of cinem$atogr\ap][her. Fre=#ddie Y!`oung,[-
who capt:*ures the spec$[ tacle of roy][a!=l wedd((ings, g/r,and balls;+ = an*@.d opulent interiors, w^?ith scenes actu`)a*?ll,.y film^ed at roy@;-a\, l palaces. V[ivid /@ba#?-ttle : scenes)\, set in A\`lex+ ander Korda'*_s empire territory (Sev_astopol and the Sudan-:)!),!`% riva=$ ,l those /in T**he Fou??r F.ea;thers (d._ Zoltan Korda 1939).　　The title[ music sets th\ e ?tone $/,) a regal (choi)r sing, s over a sho`t o\ f the c:rown*-=. E +lg$,=ar's 1901 'Pomp and C@/ircu!msta`;#nce' march )is heard during #^th:##e ,iam?+ond ju\%[bile e ce)(le
#brations a;$nd=(, as Victoria's@=: coffi!n $,lies in state, the film\ co;nc))ludes,.# with*- :%Anthony Collins' stately music )!:.accompanied
;/ by the text of Rudyar`_%%d Kipling's 'Lest we forge t'. Com(bi:ned(? wit@h the em/_/; ot[;ional appe[al o\:
^f scenes of  ,Victoria connecting w?ith !h:[er ' ordinary folk', t @his;-% is stir),rin-(]= g stuff.　　The f.ilm%+ connects wi;#th =contemp_-orary e$ve*nts #of 19(@#38. Th!!!e r-*elease of two c*\elebratory ` \ro+yal f+*ilms w[as] i?$[ntended to boost publ= ic affection for (the mon`?archy in the wak*) e of Ed?w!
?.ard@ ;;VIII's abdication. A\nglo-German relations were another touchy
 #,sub!ject. With another war on the horizo`* n, /influential voices wanted% app# easeme/; ,nt, and the @fil m cou.ld .^ be !seen to fit that -;age-nda. Vic**toria herself was[`,! o(+f m**]ainly German=
de@sce*,\\nt, ,^nickname$d 'the gr#:andmother of;# _Europe'( ,`[[ w`%hil*_.e Albe)rt %)+is a 'good German', charmingly  pla,[-?yed$ by A: nton ^\W= a^lb@:ro:o,._[k as a cultu^?red, decent man.　　Sixty Glor ious #Years now @seem!_s+] undu*=ly formal an
,_d rever[ %e;)-#ntial]]. ) [Had^ movies [existed du,-ring Victoria's + reign (they: only emerged a,@\t the ^_-end)# this migh?-t ]/`ha,@ve_ been;# t+^-:h_e kind[ \ o`f f)ilm p .roduced. Unlik $e Mrs$  B.._rown )(d. John Madden, ^1997), it is al$)l so very ' ` Victori:`a\, n'(\!\.　　],Ro(ger Philip % Mellor