Woman's Crushing Defeat At Cambridge.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume.

Crowds.

Education.

Protest movements.

Students.

Universities and colleges.

Women.

England--Cambridge.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 minute, 4 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1921.

Summary:

Main title. "Members of Senate vote her degrees, but refuse her Membership of University." (9) The Movement pressing for women students to have a limited membership of Cambridge University defeated by 908 votes to 694. Academics (in gowns and caps) milling about outside building; they enter the building via wooden steps (20). "Before the result was known Undergrads held a mock funeral to celebrate the decease of the last male member of the University!" (29) Along a crowd-lined street, male undergraduates in fancy dress (many dressed as women) parade along the street. A number of banners are visible - "Look at us don't we deserve degrees" and " Now you have seen us give us our degrees". Undergraduates pull a large cart preceded by students dressed as children (55ft).

Notes:

Issue number: 530-2.

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.