Recherche dans la collection - Wessex

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

1972-0105

Film

2 of 2

1930/1931

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

photography, Bert Bach

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>

Silent with English intertitles

7025~7026

Libre

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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