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Title: FREEDOM OF THE CITY

Reference number: 4025

Date: 1946, April 27

Sponsor: J.E. Henderson Ltd.

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.22 mins

Description: Winston Churchill arrives in Aberdeen to receive the Freedom of the City, he parades along a crowded Union Street.

See also refs. 2797 and 4563.

Introductory intertitles on this film date it as 27th April 1946.

Credits: J.E. Henderson Ltd., 377 Union Street, Aberdeen presents

Shotlist: FREEDOM OF THE CITY (1946) (0.05); Shot of Country House (0.10); Winston Churchill and his wife standing outside the house (0.18); pipers walking down a path (0.22); Accompanied by his wife and daughter Churchill planted a tree in the garden of "Edgehill" the home of Sir Thomas and Lady Jaffrey (0.42); Motorcade in Union Street lined with crowds. Churchill arrives at Music Hall (1.54); They enter Music Hall and take seats, Speeches, presentation scroll tied around Churchill's hat (3.25); leave Music Hall and enter Christian fellowship building (3.40); Dinner tables being set by maids and a waiter (3.47); drive up Union Street with burgess ticket in hat band (4.21); Room filled with people eating and being served dinner (4.45); Soldiers, one with an MP armband (4.52); Churchill entering car, crowded street, tram halted behind crowd (5.16); Churchill drives away, shots of street lined with crowd (5.33); Blackboard stand with LATEST V...... written on it (5.36); man doing a V sign smoking a cigar like Churchill (5.43); shot of lady through train window, she is using a type writer (5.47); Train workers (5.51); shot of steam train (5.59); Churchill and his party walking down the platform, they enter the train, the people wave as the train pulls away THE END (7.22)