London - A Mighty Seaport (1930)

Item title reads - London - a mighty seaport as Mr Ramsay MacDonald inaugurates giant landing stage which has taken 3 years to complete at a cost of �700,000. Tilbury, Essex. L/S as Ramsay MacDonald makes his way onto the landing stage, naval officers salute and crowds have gathered to hear him, he makes his way onto the platform. M/S profile as he makes a speech. L/S as the camera pans across the crowd to a ship and two tugs. M/S as he leaves the platform and puts the rope from the ship over a mooring bollard on the landing stage. L/S of a big ship beside the landing stage, the camera pans across it all. 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. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont G