One Minute News (1947)

Full title reads: “One Minute News“. Intertitle reads: “Kingston-Upon-Hull“. Hull, Yorkshire. Schools Athletic Association championships at Kingston-upon-Hull. LS MS Schoolboys and schoolgirls parading. MS Alderman J H Harrison Lord Mayor of Hull, watching the display with others. LS Hurdling. MS Girls doing the long jump. VS of other athletics events. CU the winner of the long jump. Lora Lee, who cleared 18 feet. Intertitle reads: “Dorchester“. Dorchester, Dorset. Tolpuddle Martyr’s Day Celebrations. LS flags and a banner, bearing the inscription ’Tolpuddle Martyrs celebration’, decorating a building. CU a union jack is pulled aside to reveal a wall plaque to the Martyrs. CU Close up of Hugh Dalton Chancellor of the Exchequer, laughing and kissing the carnival queen. LS the procession through the streets. CU a tableau in the procession, representing the 6 Tolpuddle martyrs in chains, being taken to Dorset assizes where they received their sentence of deportation for life for organising an ea
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