HMS Excellent Centenary Pageant

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

984-2

Date Released

7 Jul 1930

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Prince in the North
2. 2HRH the Duke of York Opens New Bridge at Weymouth
3. 3East End’s Royal Visitors
4. 4A Society Wedding
5. 5HMS Excellent Centenary Pageant
6. *Airship on Rails!
7. *Towards Rothesay Swim

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

Naval pageant at Whale Island for the centenary of HMS ‘Excellent’, guns firing and men in costume.

Keywords

Commemorations; Weapons; Celebrations and festivals; Ceremonies; Navy; Fashion and costume; Military

Length of story (in feet)

79

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

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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