Eleanor Roosevelt’s Tour Of Northern Ireland (1942)

Northern Ireland? Various shots of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, visiting a hospital in Northern Ireland. She is seen talking to patients in a very friendly manner. Nurses wave as she leaves. Mrs Roosevelt shaking hands with various men and women in uniform in a British army base. She is presented with a sabre and umbrella. A group of girls looking on. Various shots of Mrs Roosevelt visiting a factory. She tours around the factory and occasionally chats with workers, She is escorted by group of officers. Mrs Roosevelt coming aboard troopship. She inspects ship, officers lined up on deck. Several shots of Mrs Roosevelt on rooftop, presumably inspecting antiaircraft positions. Several shots of Mrs Roosevelt laying wreath on memorial to World War I dead. Sign on it reads ’To our Honoured Dead and Those Who Served 1914 - 1918’. Mayor and line of officers are seen in front of memorial. More shots of memorial and huge crowds - this is probably Belfast.