Remembrance Day (1946)

Item title reads - Remembrance Day. Intertitle - ’Laurence Olivier speaks Binyon’s “For the Fallen“.’ C/U as Big Ben strikes 11 o’clock. The camera pans across war graves, C/U’s of individual inscriptions. Various shots as injured soldiers are helped or carried through the jungle. M/S as a lady cries and mourns over a grave. M/S as cars come to a stop and a man takes his hat off, M/S of a nurse with two injured men observing the silence. M/S as a woman puts flowers on a war memorial. C/U of a solitary shepherd standing and observing the silence. Various shots of the ceremony at London’s Cenotaph. Various shots of a mother and her little son and daughter (typifying a war widow), a man’s photograph stands on the wireless. Various shots as her children play with a toy tank. Various shots as servicemen march. M/S looking out to sea from a ship. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSI