Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 10249 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
SILVER JUBILEE OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V | 1935 | 1935-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 49 secs Credits: Individuals: Tom H. Brown Genre: Amateur |
Summary Amateur film by Middlesbrough dentist Tom H. Brown that captures the celebrations held in Middlesbrough to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V. The film records the morning church parade with views of the procession from the Town Hall to Albert Park and the outdoors church service held in Albert Park. This film is one of the earliest surviving amateur Dufaycolor films in the region. |
Description
Amateur film by Middlesbrough dentist Tom H. Brown that captures the celebrations held in Middlesbrough to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V. The film records the morning church parade with views of the procession from the Town Hall to Albert Park and the outdoors church service held in Albert Park. This film is one of the earliest surviving amateur Dufaycolor films in the region.
Title: Movie No. 18
Title: Silver Jubilee Of His Majesty King George V. A Record In Colour Of The...
Amateur film by Middlesbrough dentist Tom H. Brown that captures the celebrations held in Middlesbrough to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V. The film records the morning church parade with views of the procession from the Town Hall to Albert Park and the outdoors church service held in Albert Park. This film is one of the earliest surviving amateur Dufaycolor films in the region.
Title: Movie No. 18
Title: Silver Jubilee Of His Majesty King George V. A Record In Colour Of The Celebrations in Middlesbro’ On Jubilee Morning 6.5.35
Portrait shot of a street vendor holding a sandwich board advertising Middlesbrough Jubilee programmes for 6d. View of the Corporation Hotel. People walk by in the background and look towards the camera. There are views of Middlesbrough Town Hall and the surrounding streets with a great many patriotic and festive decorations. View of Middlesbrough Town Hall with a giant bunting sign that reads “Their Majesties.”
A military band marches down Corporation Road. Crowds of people line the road to watch the parade. There is a close-up of the legs of the soldiers as they march past camera. Soldiers with rifles march past. The film then cuts to various views of the different organisations holding flags in the procession as it winds past the Town Hall. These include the Scouts, the Fire Brigade, various civic officials and a church minister.
Title: The Mayor Coun. T.K. Briggs.
The Mayor of Middlesbrough Thomas K. Briggs marches past in full ceremonial dress and various high-ranking civic officials also march in the procession.
Title: The Albert Park
View of a highly decorated bandstand in Albert Park. Crowds of people line the path, some standing on chairs.
Title: The Mayor’s Party, Led By The Chief Constable, Mr D. Heald.
The Chief Constable of Middlesbrough, D. Heald, leads the Mayor’s party in the procession through Albert Park. A policeman carries a banner of the Middlesbrough Coat of Arms. Many policemen accompany the procession. There is a close up of the Mayor and Mayoress as they walk past.
Title: Coun. J. Reubens
A group of men and women councillors in blue ceremonial gowns and hats stand with Councillor Reubens. He smiles at the camera as he walks by in the procession.
Title: Coun. Welch & Coun. French
Close up of Councillors Welch and French in blue ceremonial gowns with black hats as they march past in the procession through Albert Park.
Many civic officials in ceremonial gowns and hats leave a church.
The Mayor and Mayor’s wife wait at a gate surrounded by policemen.
There is a shot of the Jubilee programme for the prayer and thanksgiving service to be held in Albert Park at 11 am.
The film returns to a view of the decorated bandstand in Albert Park, surrounded by a great number of people. The church minister leads a service from a makeshift altar decorated with a Union Jack cloth. A closer view of the minister who addresses the crowd follows.
Title: A Telephoto Shot of Right- Ald. Sir T.G. Poole, The Mayor’s Chaplain, The Town Clerk, The Mayoress. Left-The Mayor.
Dignitaries listen to the service on the bandstand in Albert Park.
Title: Now Thank We All Our God
The focus is on a group of men in the crowd singing during the service in Albert Park.
Title: Gentlemen The King!
The film closes with a photograph of King George V in full regal ceremonial dress.
Title: Long May He Reign!
End credit: Photography - T.H. Brown
Context
On Middlesbrough’s Corporation Road a sullen youth in a flat cap wears a sandwich board advertising 6d programmes for the town’s George V Silver Jubilee celebrations. A grand military and civic procession snakes through festive streets and jubilant crowds, from the magnificent Gothic Town Hall to Albert Park, where a Thanksgiving service is led from the decorated bandstand. This event was filmed by a Middlesbrough dentist, Tom Brown, in a lush mosaic of Dufaycolor.
Public respect for King...
On Middlesbrough’s Corporation Road a sullen youth in a flat cap wears a sandwich board advertising 6d programmes for the town’s George V Silver Jubilee celebrations. A grand military and civic procession snakes through festive streets and jubilant crowds, from the magnificent Gothic Town Hall to Albert Park, where a Thanksgiving service is led from the decorated bandstand. This event was filmed by a Middlesbrough dentist, Tom Brown, in a lush mosaic of Dufaycolor.
Public respect for King George V increased during the First World War when he visited the front line, and toured home front hospitals, factories and ship yards. He was certainly popular in Middlesbrough. On June 14 1917 he had made the first visit to Teesside by a reigning monarch. The North Eastern Daily Gazette reported that the visit constituted “the most flattering tribute which has yet been paid to the great industries of this district”. At the height of its popularity with amateur film-makers in 1935, Dufaycolor, with its pronounced mosaic pattern of colour filters, was also used commercially by British Movietone News to film the Silver Jubilee procession for the King in London. |