Learning on ScreenBritain’s First ‘General Strike’
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- [1ST SUBTITLE]: "Miners leave the pits and Greatest Industrial Upheaval Begins." Group of miners walking away from pit head up slope towards camera, smiling as they pass. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Scenes in Downing St.". Medium long shot of large group of men being moved away from Downing Street area by policemen [view looking towards Whitehall]. Close shot of Winston Churchill and another man (not identifiable) standing outside 10 Downing Street. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Mr Arthur Henderson". Close-up of Arthur Henderson. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "Mr Ramsay MacDonald" [section missing]. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "'A State of Emergency’. Volunteers for National Service crowd Whitehall". Long queue of men entering wooden building in Whitehall area. Closer shot of a group of them smiling for the camera. [6TH SUBTITLE]: "Hyde Park - becomes the Milk Depot of the Metropolis". Medium long shot of fleet of vans lined up at Marble Arch. Medium shot of van (elsewhere) with sign ‘Food Only’ at head of a long line of such vehicles curving into the distance. Volunteers signing up at desk in open air. [7TH SUBTITLE]: "Mr AJ Cook (Miners’ Secretary)." Close-up of Cook. [8TH SUBTITLE]: "Mr Ernest Bevin ('Dockers’ KC’)". Close-up of Bevin standing outside the Houses of Parliament. [9TH SUBTITLE]: "Mr JH Thomas". [section missing]. [10TH SUBTITLE]: "How London went to work". People on foot and on bicycles criss-crossing London street [The Strand?]. Some motor vehicles in background. Pan. [11TH SUBTITLE]: "London Bridge". View from South Bank side of large numbers of people crossing London Bridge both ways on foot, bicycle, motor cycle, motor car and bus. Closer shot of previous street scene with policeman directing traffic. Cyclists crossing London Bridge. Pan. [12TH SUBTITLE]: "To Feed the People. Sir W Mitchell-Thomson, Postmaster-General, becomes Chief Civil Commissioner". Close-up of Mitchell-Thomson. [13TH SUBTITLE]: "The Prime Minister’s Message - ‘Steady!'". Close-up indoors of Stanley Baldwin at a desk writing and smoking a pipe (160 feet/192 feet).
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- Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Labour relations; Cycling
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