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Title: GROSVENOR TOPICAL NEWS: DAY OF REMEMBRANCE MEMORIAL SERVICE AT THE GLASGOW CENOTAPH

Reference number: 0119

Date: 1927, November

Director: [filmed by James Hart]

Sponsor: [ Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.59 mins

Description: Parade into George Square of war veterans. General Sir Ian Hamilton meets some of the men and makes his speech at the Cenotaph.

Attributed to James Hart, as one of his series of local topicals ‘Grosvenor Topical News’.

Shotlist: Credits (0.06) parade into George Square of war veterans (1.32) General Sir Ian Hamilton meets some of the men and makes speech at Cenotaph to veterans, crowd, civic officials (2.44) laying of wreaths (3.15) pan over assembled veterans, one using wheelchair, to military band [spectators remove hats] (4.01) march past of veterans to General's salute [each group carries a sign, Scots Guards, Royal Scots, etc.] (5.16) [12 second cut-in of ref. 0117, Church Parade of Lowland Signal Units] (5.28) parade, trams in background (5.50) [another cut-in from ref. 0117] (5.59)