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大象传媒 Parliament marks the 80th anniversary of the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 12 May 1937. For the first time on British television, a complete showing of Pathe's original black and white newsreel coverage of the coronation of HM George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Westminster Abbey on 12 May 1937. This was the first time the coronation service had been filmed. The film shows the processions to and from the Abbey as well as the coronation service inside the Abbey itself. Unusually, the King was crowned only five months into his reign as the date had been set for his brother Edward VIII's coronation which of course never took place following his abdication in December 1936. As George VI said at the time "Same date, different king.".