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This is London

Item number (ISN):

302144

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1936

Item number (ISN):

302144

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

REFORD, Robert Bruce Stephen

Accession:

1997-0471

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1936

Production company:

Hurst Films

Production credit:

director, Tristram Grayson

Description:

Footage of London including: Westminster Abbey; Big Ben and the opening of the London bridge. Footage of the celebration of the King's jubilee on May 6th, including: crowds in front of Buckingham Palace; horse guards riding out of the palace; a gun carriage; soldiers marching; King George V in a horse carriage; an unidentified child sleeping; the British flag at half-mast; newspaper clippings about the death of King George V; men carrying the coffin from the Horse Guards' Parade to the interior of Westminster Hall; and a newspaper photograph of Edward VIII. <7mn 2s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Black and white footage.~2. The main title is preceded by the logo "Specially Commended by the Board of Amateur Cine World (ACW)".~3. Films numbered 23 and 24 in the Reford Collection.~4. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' print calculated at 18 fps.~5. Tristram Grayson was an Irish Guard Officer.~6. Major R.B.S. Reford participated in the Lying in State vigil in Westminster Hall after the death of King George V and received a personal note of thanks from the new King, Edward VIII.~7. Date of production from Kodak edge code.

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Vault ISN:

423422

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-05-0460

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.8%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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