(Reel 1) The film comes from two cameras. For the exterior scenes of delegates arriving at the Foreign Office the first camera is positioned low on the steps beside which the official cars stop. Few o...
I. 'PUBLIC SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP: Mr. D.J. Bryceson wins the 100 yds., the quarter mile and the steeplechase thereby giving his school, Latymer Upper, Hammersmith, the Schools Championship'. The games t...
The body of Marshal Foch lies in state at the Invalides. King Albert of Belgium and then a crowd of people file past to pay their last respects. For the procession the streets are lined with soldiers....
Compilation of newsreel items, showing a portrait the era 1900-1940, originally from the archives of Gaumont Actualités, Gaumont British and Haghe Film.
The film emphasises the pre-war uniqueness of Britain, rich, insular, with a strong trading position and a free democracy united under the constitutional monarchy. The only pre-war violence comes in t...