General Election Night (1929)

No title, paperwork reads - General Election night. Thousands throng Trafalgar Square to cheer or boo as results were flashed out. London. L/S of the crowds under a spotlight, M/S of the screen under an advertisement for the ’Daily Mail’. It gives out pieces of information about the election, one of which was that large numbers of women were at the polling stations before the officials had arrived! The results start to flash up. L/S of the crowds again, they wave. M/S as the camera pans across the crowds looking up at the results, some surge forward. M/S of van with big speakers on it. Various shots of the crowd. 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 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 the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.