Lusitania Day

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

246-1

Date Released

10 May 1916

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Cyclist’s Corps
2. 2US Warehouse Fire
3. 3London’s May Queen
4. 4Lusitania Day
5. 5Boy Munition Worker

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Czechs in native dress and survivors of Germany’s greatest crime of piracy, marching from the Embankment to Hyde Park." Marching band followed by people carrying banners including a large one for the ‘British Empire Union’, followed by a large model of the ‘Lusitania’ in a glass case drawn by a horse. People process behind with banners, including two reading ‘Hang All Pro-German Peacemongers’ and ‘With the deepest sorrow the London Czechs remember Lusitania’.

Keywords

Commemorations; Ceremonies; Fashion and costume

Length of story (in feet)

57

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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