The Day of Remembrance

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

951-1

Date Released

14 Nov 1929

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Day of Remembrance
2. 2The Duke of Gloucester
3. 3'All the World Loves a Lover’
4. 4A Fine ‘Hat Trick’
5. 5The Duchess of York
6. *Birmingham. The Day of Remembrance
7. *Scotland’s Day of Remembrance
8. *The Second Test
9. *Leeds. The Day of Remembrance
10. *Liverpool. The Day of Remembrance
11. *Manchester. The Day of Remembrance
12. *Newcastle Lest We Forget
13. *Lord Mayor’s Sunday at Newcastle

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "The 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month and 11th anniversary of the Armistice." Duke of Windsor, Duke of York and others lay wreaths at the Cenotaph. Royal women on balcony. Politicians lined up including Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Proudly you gathered, rank on rank to war ..." [description incomplete] [3RD SUBTITLE]: "VCs. Armistice Day 1929 in London." Includes guns firing on Horse Guards’ Parade [scene transferred from issue 898-2].

Keywords

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

Length of story (in feet)

213

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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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