The Queues - Unemployment (1923)

Item title reads - Two queues tell the story of the great problem of the election - unemployment and everywhere the queue for the dole. L/S as the camera pans across the queues of men and women outside the employment exchange. Intertitle - ’and voters throughout the country are flocking to hear the cure from the “big guns“ of the 3 parties.’ Various shots of a queue of people moving slowly along. M/S as people walk along and are shown the way by policemen. 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 ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to
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