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Topical Budget 742-1: Remembrance Day (1925)
 

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12/11/1925
35mm, black and white, 175 feet
 
Production CompanyTopical Film Company

Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph.

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Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, was the most hallowed day in the newsreel calendar, and the story often occupied an entire newsreel. The sense of wartime sacrifice was still very fresh in the public memory, and as the opening title reminds us, "the whole Empire was hushed into ... silence." Featured here at the Cenotaph are the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of York, the Duke of Kent, prime minister Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill and Austen Chamberlain.

Luke McKernan

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Topical Budget 690-1: Armistice Day (1924)
A Very Topical Year: 1925
Topical Budget: British Identity and the Empire