Lord Beaverbrook (1920-1929)

Location of events unknown. Early sound film of Lord Beaverbrook speaking about economic recovery after World War One. He mentions British Empire Customs Union and a conference to be held at Ottawa, Canada. This is probably one of the first instances of a government representative making a statement on film. American cataloguer’s note: Beaverbrook (William Aitken), a Canadian-born newspaper publisher, who was at the time British Minister of Information. FILM ID:2430.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to