Remembrance Day

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

742-1

Date Released

12 Nov 1925

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Remembrance Day
2. 2Winter’s Early Toll
3. 3Wembley on Wheels
4. *Glasgow’s Day of Remembrance

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "On the stroke of eleven the whole Empire was hushed into the seventh great silence." Close-up of the dial of Big Ben showing eleven o’clock. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "At the Mansion House". Pan shot of the open-air service during the two minutes silence and a shot looking down on the heads of the crowd. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "The King at the Cenotaph". The choir walking in procession from the door of the Home Office. Queen Mary, the Duchess of York and other royal ladies at the front of the balcony of the Home Office. King George V walks to take up his position, followed by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Kent. The King lays his wreath and walks back to his position. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Kent together lay their wreaths, and the Prince of Wales is shown returning to his place. The King and the Princes remove their caps. A shot of the members of the Cabinet including Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill and Austen Chamberlain, followed by a roof-top shot. The King, Princes and officers replace their caps and the buglers sound the ‘Last Post’. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "Pilgrims of Remembrance". Pan shot as ex-servicemen and relatives walk in a long queue to lay wreaths and flowers. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "'Their name liveth for evermore’". A column of horse-drawn baggage and provision wagons on the march across an open plain.

Keywords

Royalty; Commemorations; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ceremonies; Military

Credits:

Camera

Charles F. T. Heath

Camera

Frank W. Purnell

Camera

George Plowman

Camera

Harold G. Jones

Camera

Montague G. Benson

Length of story (in feet)

170

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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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