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Harlech Castle’s Thousand Years of History

Series

Series Name
Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.
574-1
Date Released
24 Aug 1922
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Lifeboat ‘Frederick H Tilley’ Launched from Lizard Point
  2. 2Railway Smash Near Gravesend
  3. 3Harlech Castle’s Thousand Years of History
  4. 4Yorks Draw with Surrey
  5. 5Michael Collins
  6. *King in Kilts

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Summary
[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Premier’s family in stirring Welsh pageant." Lloyd George, his wife and daughter Megan. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Harlech Castle". The scene at the castle. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Rehearsing: Miss Megan and Major Gwilym Lloyd George". Rehearsing in mufti, then acting, as Lady Edmund Mortimer and Edmund Mortimer. Gwilym in armour and Megan in medieval costume. Flooding of the castle (children as waves). Children bearing a strip of cloth make their way towards the castle.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Celebrations and festivals
Length of story (in feet)
117

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Phone
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Fax
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Address
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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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