Unseen 3D footage of the Queen in her coronation year, shot by a Berkhamsted filmmaker, will be broadcast for the first time on Monday. 

Arthur Wooster, now 80, from Little Gaddesden, worked with Bob Angell, now 87, from Fulham, to film the Queen for a Pathe newsreel in 1953.

The cameramen used cutting edge 3D colour technology to make a 17-minute movie, but the footage was lost in an archive for more than half a century.   

It was discovered at the British Film Institute, hidden in a tin labelled "Royal Review 1953", after Arthur Wooster mentioned the newsreel to his son David, also a filmmaker.

Now, the footage will film part of a Channel 4 documentary, titled The Queen in 3D, which will tell the story of Arthur and Bob's project.

The original newsreel cost the equivalent of £3,000 to make, but was never publicly screened after competition from the television industry meant 3D film lost its popularity.

The pioneering colour film covers the coronation procession to and from Westminster Abbey, a trip to the Epsom Derby and footage of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on the Royal Barge on the River Thames shortly after the coronation, as well as the Queen Mother leaving Heathrow on a holiday to Madeira.

The Channel 4 documentary also includes modern 3D footage, shot by Arthur and Bob at a Buckingham Palace garden party and the Highland Games, at the Queen's invitation.

Arthur said: "The Queen has been such a constant figure for the nation, it is remarkable to think that there is a side to her people still haven't seen before.

"It was quite a feat to pull off at the time. We were heartbroken that it was shelved at the time but at least we got paid.

"It's just taken a while, rather a long while in actual fact, to see the light of day."

His son David, who helped to recover the lost footage, described his father's film as "absolutely stunning". 

He added: "It is like a little time capsule. You really do feel like you are part of the era."

David Glover, commissioning editor of special factual programming at Channel 4, said: "It was like looking into a window into the past. It was the closest thing to time travel I ever experienced, to a moment in history before I was born."

The programme will air in two parts, the first on Monday (November 16) and the second on Tuesday (November 17) at 9pm. 

Viewers can collect free 3D glasses from Sainsbury's stores across the UK in order to watch the film. Buckingham Palace has even been sent a pair so that the Queen will be able to watch it herself, if she wishes to. 

Photograph: Parliamentary copyright image, reproduced with the permission of Parliament.