Special matinee for the wounded.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charities.

Fame.

Motor vehicles.

War.

Wounds and injuries.

England--London.

Great Britain. Army.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 minute, 12 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1915.

Summary:

"SPECIAL MATINEE FOR THE WOUNDED Chung Ling Soo receives wounded soldiers from the hospital, and afterwards gives them a special performance at the Palladium." MLS of a queue of soldiers filing into the main entrance of the Palladium Theatre, London. Some are on crutches and a number have walking sticks (16). MLS of wounded soldiers with crutches being helped out of a car by theatre commissionaires (40). MLS of wounded soldiers alighting from a different car to that in the previous shot and being greeted by two women in waitress uniforms. The waitresses are holding trays bearing small gift boxes (possibly cigarettes?) which are handed to the soldiers (47). MS of an Asian gentleman with pig tail (presumably Chung Ling Soo) shaking the hand of a soldier with crutches as he is about to alight from a car. A woman standing behind the Asian gentleman is offering the same gift packages as in the previous shot (55ft).

Notes:

Issue number: 212-2 ; Story number within issue: 5 of 5

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.