DUKE OF GLOUCESTER IN CEYLON MAY 1934
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Title: DUKE OF GLOUCESTER IN CEYLON MAY 1934
Reference number: 10075
Date: 1934 - 1935
Director: filmed by William Dick Brown
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 14.48 mins tbc
Description: Amateur footage of events in and around Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], including a royal visit and a Scouts' jamboree.
Shotlist: Children waving union flags and the Duke of Gloucester’s car arriving. Men line up and are inspected by the Duke. The Duke lays a wreath at a war memorial. High shots showing Grenadier Guards band marching and crowds following behind. Shots of a clock tower and Lord Baden-Powell arriving at a Scouts' jamboree on Galle Face, Colombo. People holding flags from different countries march on to a field. Bands and dancers parade in a line past the crowds. Extensive shots of the performance follow with people in various costumes. Shots from the beach. Shots from a parade a float covered in flowers with union flags drives past - other floats in the shape of swans and elephants. Elephant pulling along another float. Crowds walking about in front of a municipal building and shots of boats sailing near the liner Empress of Britain. Waves crashing over a harbour wall.