Great Navigator And Empire Builder (1928)

Item title reads - Great navigator and Empire builder. Sir James Parr and Sir George Fuller representing New Zealand and New South Wales (discovered by the great navigator) attend Captain James Cook bicentenary celebrations. Ayton, Yorkshire. L/S as members of the army and navy walk along. L/S as the camera pans across crowds and armed forces to a table where men are sat writing, others are making speeches on a platform. This is the lawn of the lawn of Marton Hall, Stewart Park, Marton. L/S of the platform surrounded by people. M/S of clergymen walking in graveyard of All Saints Church at Great Ayton, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, with Sir James Parr. From left to right, those looking at the grave are Sir George Fuller, Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, and Sir James Parr. C/U of Cook’s family’s headstone. 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 EN
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