London 1938

A tour of London, England in 1938. Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guard, guardsman with rifle at attention at gate, marching band, drums, guards marching with rifles, Constituition Hill, Hyde Park, Wellington memorial, Speakers Corner, horseback riding in park, nannies and baby carriages, sailboats on pond, baby in sandbox, swans, child drinking tea, British Museum and Regents Park Zoo, bears playing, peacocks strutting, Komodo dragon, Picadilly Circus overhead with traffic, double decker buses, flower seller, men in top hats, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, Church of St Martins, Nelson's Column, Horse guards at Whitehall, helmut with chin strap, 10 Downing Street, Neville Chamberlain in top hat, the Centograph, large crowd of people, King George VI places wreath, Scotland Yard, policemen marching, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, procession of dignitaries, St Paul's Cathedral, Ludgate Hill, Bank of England, bankers, dialing telephone, switchboard operators, pedestrians, Tower of London, Crown Jewels, diamonds, London Bridge, tug boat on Thames, unloading cargo from ship,. steam whistle, escalator in underground subway, people boarding bus, doorman with taxi, statue, London by night, rain soaked streets, neon lights, Big Ben. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

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[hoskingrj]

That's not Prince Phillip placing the wreath, that's King George VI.

Not Harold Macmillan at Downing St, either: its Neville Chamberlain.

[travelfilmarchive]

Thanks. I have made the corrections.

[stellalouise1]

Why does someone always have to knock the British Empire? Weren't savage, unfair governments replaced with civilized law and justice 99% of the time anyway? If England is so vile, why do so many from their former colonies still clamor to move there? One more question, why is it so often Americans (like me) defending England and not the English? Buck up, Brits! Don't let the P.C. whiners get away with their whimpering about the Empire. Wonderful old film. Thanks for the post.

[stellalouise1]

My ancestors fought in the Revolution. My family was in America long before the Revolution. I am a patriotic American and the British have a right to be patriotic and proud of their history as well.

[emptyangel]

Ahh, back in the days when all Guardsmen were TALL (no less than six feet tall!) soldiers that commanded a great deal of respect.

[nakedmambo]

@stellalouise1 Everyone who disagrees with you is a 'Commie". I'll be blunt with you: fuck off you American sack of shit. There's no sense in me carrying out discussion with half-educated people.

[stellalouise1]

@nakedmambo Everyone knows that the British East India Company was unfair and even brutal to many Indians and that to live under colonial rule can be nearly insufferable. My own ancestors lived under it. If it pleases you to be a self hating English Commie, there is nothing I can do to about it. It does not make you superior to your ancestors or anyone else. Yes, India is still guilty of doing the things the English discoraged. Pointing to Germany as a conquestless nation is insane.

[nakedmambo]

@stellalouise1 Widows were still climbing on pyres as late as Indira Gandhi's term. As for countries only existing out of conquest, that's just nonsense. Modern Germany didn't come into existence 'because' of conquest. Many countries have changed because of conquest, but this is not the same thing as living under brutal colonial rule. You estimate more benefit than reflects reality.

[nakedmambo]

@stellalouise1 I think I have a far longer and better understanding of it than you ever will. Firstly I am English, secondly my grandfather was among the last of the 'employees' of the British East India Company with first-hand experience of what really went on in India and similar colonies.

Millions of people were still untouchable after 1947 and British rule encouraged the caste system as an analogue to the class system. It was abolished AFTER independence.

[stellalouise1]

@nakedmambo .....Continued....Besides, how can you look at India and see a failure? The British did more for India than you care to look at. Without the British, widows would still be climbing on funeral pyres and millions of people would still be officially "untouchable" just to name two. India is a thriving nation, in no small thanks to the way the British left it - better off than when they found it. Note - I did NOT say that everything every British official did there was wonderful.

[stellalouise1]

@nakedmambo I think you are a bit sheltered. There is no country on the earth that does not exist as the result of a conquest - no stone throwing allowed here. Compare the British Empire to every other one in history. As little as 100 years ago, EVERYONE was "racist". What other superpower would allow an Edmund Burke to even speak, much less have a conscience about it? You are judging it on modern sensabilities which is grossly unfair. I don't mind speaking up to Uncle Joe Stalin lovers at all.

[nakedmambo]

@stellalouise1 How completely wrong you are. The empire used the law for one thing only to protect trade, the rest of civilian law was barely touched. The disgusting racism and use of slave labour to build the empire is well documented. It took a parliamentary speech by Edmund Burke to get even a little done in colonies like India, on the whole all colonies were left broken and open for dictatorship. It's Americans like you who defend this because America is the replacement colonial empire.

[BOSTONBUCK]

@stellalouise1 THEIR HISTORY IS PART OF OURS