Title reads: "This Day - February 25th". Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century.
Feb 1928 - First Levee of King George V - Military parade and senior officers. Feb 1928 - Building of the new Tyne Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead. Feb 1925 -...
Title reads: "This Day - February 25th". Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century.
Feb 1928 - First Levee of King George V - Military parade and senior officers. Feb 1928 - Building of the new Tyne Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead. Feb 1925 - 21st Anniversary of Trams - decorated illuminated tram on the tracks. Feb 1928 - French horsewomen race from Paris to Marseilles. VS of amphibious car crossing river using large balloon floats. Feb 1921 - David Lloyd George, President Briand and Marshal Foch at Chequers. Feb 1928 - Thomas Edison on 81st Birthday. Feb 1927 - Captain Charles Lindbergh on transatlantic flight. Feb 1935 - Shots of Lindbergh Baby kidnapping trial and of Bruno Hauptmann. Feb 1952 - Marie Besnard trail in France - She tried for murder of 12 of her relations. Feb 1934 - Riots in American against Austrian leader Dr Eugelbert Dollfuss. GV of Prague, Czechoslovakia. VS of Munich Pact being signed 1938 - Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier. Feb 1948 - The fall of the Czech Government of Benes and arrival of Klement Gottwald.
Spacing.
Feb 1946 - Rome, Italy - Creation of New Cardinals in Vatican. VS of Pope Pius XII and Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster. Feb 1954 - American Evangelist Billy Graham arrives by ship. Various shots of crowds waiting to see Graham as he arrives in London.
Compilation of material from the Pathe Library - Paperwork gives details of sources. Made in 1956.
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