Washington Ancestral Home Ceremony (1920-1929)

Sulgrave Manor, Oxfordshire, the ancestral home of first American president George Washington, is inaugurated as permanent memorial to Anglo-American Friendship. Priests lead a procession of dignitaries coming out of church. Ceremony with crowd watching speeches, flags of Great Britain and USA displayed on platform Spacing. Title reads: “Ancestral Home of the Washington’s inaugurated as permanent memorial to Anglo-American Friendship“. MS line of people coming through small gatehouse. Panning shot crowd, man on platform in background stands and gives speech. VS other men making speeches from platform, on which are American and English flags & a bus of the president. Crowd walks through village, bunting and flags everywhere. Audience in front of platform stands to cheer. More shots of ceremony. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.