Amelia and the Angel (1958)

Amelia and the Angel (1958) 26 mins Directed by Ken Russell

A young angel scours London for her wings in this tender short by the young Ken Russell. Amelia is played by 9 year old Mercedes Quadros, daughter of the Uruguay Ambassador to London.

Aug. 03, 1954 - New Ambassador From Uruguay Presents Credentials: Dr. Jose Quadros the new Uruguay Ambassador to London - this morning presented his credentials to H.M. The Queen at Buckingham Palace. Photo shows Dr. Jose Quadros with his two children Ana Tues (aged 9) and Mercedes (6) when they saw him off to the Palace from their residence No.1 Campden Hill this morning

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The End Of The World by Archibald MacLeish

https://allpoetry.com/The-End-of-the-World

Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot

The armless ambidextrian was lighting

A match between his great and second toe,

And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting

The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum

Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough

In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb

Quite unexpectedly to top blew off:

And there, there overhead, there, there hung over

Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,

There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover,

There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,

There in the sudden blackness the black pall

Of nothing, nothing, nothing — nothing at all.

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