Liverpool May Day Celebrations.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Crowds.

Horses.

May Day.

Mayors.

Monuments.

Parades.

England--Liverpool.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (50 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1927.

Summary:

Main title (3). Side-view of dignitaries sitting in a roped off area in a street in which there is a monument with a lion. Crowds lined up against a large civic building in the background. Heavily decorated horses (the decorations consisting mainly of large garlands of flowers) being led around(9). Horses being led down a main throughfare - the `Daily Despatch' offices and the Empire Theatre can be seen (13). Closer shots of decorated horses being led by their owners (32). Dignitaries on tiered seating amid a statue of a man in academic robes. Table with very large silver trophy cups, and several smaller cups awaiting presentation (35). The lord mayor and anotherofficial standing by the cups (39). HAS crowds in the square - Empire Theatre can be seen (44). A garlanded horse with its owner. The mayor and a woman witha chain of office [possibly Margaret Bevan] stand by. The woman with the chain of office shakes hands with the horse's owner (48ft).

Notes:

Issue number: 822-2.

Note: Liverpool edition only. Replaced item on the Duke of York's School. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool cited in the 1927 edition of `Whitaker's Almanack' was F. C. Bowring (1926-27) succeeded by Margaret Bevan.

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.