PERSONAL RECORD. MABEE, NOEL. [LONDON AND PARIS]

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Year
1952
Reference
F22517
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1952
Reference
F22517
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:22:00
Credits
Photography: N G Mabee

01:31:25 Various street scenes and buildings, London. Intertitle ‘At night’. Various views of neon signs. Intertitle ‘Oxford Street - shopping centre.’ Street scenes, Oxford Street. Intertitle ‘Park Lane - Dorchester Hotel.’ Intertitle ‘Grosvenor Square - Home of the American Embassy and Roosevelt Memorial.’ Buildings, statue of Roosevelt, American flag. Intertitle ‘Hyde Park Corner’. Intertitle ‘Picadilly W1’. Tourist group walk around gardens. Rooftops of London. Intertitle ‘Trafalgar Square - with Nelson’s Monument, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and the National Gallery.’ Children feed pigeons. Intertitle ‘South Africa House’. Intertitle ‘Canada House.’ Intertitle ‘Law Courts in the Strand.’ Intertitle ‘Tower Bridge and the River Thames.’ Intertitle ‘The ancient Tower of London.’ Intertitle ‘Beefeaters - a link with the past.’ Intertitle ‘The Coster Pearly Kings and Queens - the real Londoners’. Intertitle ‘St Paul’s Cathedral - Wren’s masterpiece.’ Intertitle ‘Whitehall -centre of Government Offices.’

Intertitle ‘Changing of the Queen’s Guard - Royal tradition in a daily ceremony.’ Intertitle ‘The Royal Horse Guards - ‘The Blues.’ Intertitle ‘The Life Guards wear scarlet tunics.’ Intertitle ‘New Zealand House in the Strand.’ Intertitle ‘Westminster Abbey.’ Intertitle ‘Nearby is the statue of Boadicea.’ Intertitle ‘The Houses of Parliament with Big Ben.’ Public gardens [Hyde Park]. Crowds watch parade of Beefeaters. [Trooping the Colours ceremony, Whitehall].

Thatch roofed house, dog in garden, woman waves from window, man in garden. Various views of thatched houses, cars on road, river [Thames], historic buildings. Ruins on hill. Church of S. Martin, Wareham. English woodlands. Sign ‘Puddletown’. Couple walking in gardens. Scenes of motor racing competitions. Various races motor car races around track.

Intertitle ‘Paris’. Views of various statues, buildings and monuments including Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triumph. Street scenes.