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DetailsOriginal Format: Standard 8 Colour: Black & White / Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 14 mins 50 secs Credits: Derrick Walton
Subject: ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE
Summary This is a film made by Derrick Walton of a sightseeing trip to London.
Description
This is a film made by Derrick Walton of a sightseeing trip to London.
Title – London May 1954
Photography by D P Walton
Col. The film shows St Paul’s Cathedral, the Monument, a Queen's Guard, Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, Admiralty Arch, The Mall, Victoria Memorial, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the Cenotaph, Downing Street, and St James’ Park. Then onto speaker’s corner where an Afro-Caribbean is speaking for the ‘Colored...
This is a film made by Derrick Walton of a sightseeing trip to London.
Title – London May 1954
Photography by D P Walton
Col. The film shows St Paul’s Cathedral, the Monument, a Queen's Guard, Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, Admiralty Arch, The Mall, Victoria Memorial, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the Cenotaph, Downing Street, and St James’ Park. Then onto speaker’s corner where an Afro-Caribbean is speaking for the ‘Colored Workers Welfare Association’ (with all his fingers). Then there is a speaker with a bow tie, and a bearded man from the London Anarchist Group, and lastly a woman speaker. The speaker with a bow tie signs autographs.
Then to the Empire Theatre at night, with a large billboard for ‘The Swan’, starring Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness and Louis Jordan [came out in 1956]. Then there are the lights for the Café de Paris with Eartha Kitt showing, and finally many images of the advertisements on the electric hoardings.
The film switches to an airfield, and people boarding a light aircraft, which rakes off filmed from on board. The surrounding area (possibly Rome) is filmed, and then the landing. They do a tour of the large airport, filming many planes housed there.
The film finishes with Mrs Walton greeting a woman at the front of her house.
The End.