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Series title:Along the Highways and Byways of EnglandHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1930/1931Item number (ISN):278012Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.Accession:1972-0105Media:FilmPart:2 of 2Production date:1930/1931Production company:Ontario Motion Picture BureauProduction credit:photography, Bert BachDescription:In this film, the viewer is shown some of the points of interest in Wessex as the OMPB car tours the region. One of the four divisions of early Saxon England (along with Essex, Kent, and Sussex), Wessex is made up of peaceful villages such as Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon. Salisbury Cathedral was built on the site where the arrow of the evicted monks had fallen in 1219, and remains "the finests spire in England." The next stop is Wilton, where Alfred the Great once defeated the Danes; then on to Stonehenge whose history is shrouded in innumerable legends. The viewer is shown troops performing manoevers on Salisbury Plain which remains in the Canadian contingent's memory, as does "The Old Bustard", Bustard Hotel. The tour continues through Somerset, by the river Exe, to Devon and the Exeter Cathedral founded in the 10th century. The film ends as the car passes between deep Cornish hedges and English wildflowers. <10mn 29s>Language:Silent with English intertitlesOriginal number:7025~7026Notes:Detailed holdings information: -
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