Looking Back - On 1947 (1947)

Full title reads: "Looking Back - On 1947". Mainly library film review of the year's events.



Sporting events. Oxford V Cambridge University Boat Race - won by Cambridge. Denis Compton playing cricket. VS of Grand National Horse race. John Cobb world land speed record. Football Cup final - Charlton V Burnley. Derby Horse race won by Pearl Diver.



CU Exterior shots of the British Museum, London, fading to the Library and bookshelves with the Domesday book superimposed. A man takes a book down from a shelf.



Hector McNeil speaking at United Nations. Vyshinsky addresses meeting. American President Harry S Truman speak to Congress. Fighting between Arabs and Jews following the partition of Israel and Palestine. Strike and demonstration scenes in France. Parade of Italian Communists. Demos in Germany. Transfer of power to Burma signed by Clement Attlee. Transfer of power to India and Pakistan - Lord Louis Mountbatten - the last Viceroy. Trouble resulting from Partition. Royal visit to South Africa by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother).



CU Pages of the Domesday Book being turned superimposed on shelf of books.



Footballer Tommy Lawton, Eva Peron (Evita). Emanuel (Manny) Shinwell. Hugh Dalton. General Charles De Gaulle, Soviet / Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, General George Marshall. Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of Exchequer.



CU Pages of the Domesday Book being turned superimposed on shelf of books.



Steel industry, production and coal mines - workers. Whitehaven mine disaster. Railway crashes cost lives. Rudder Dump fire in London. Weather - terrible snow and winter, followed by heavy floods. Hot summer scenes in heat wave. Royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Ext. Museum.
FILM ID:1199.42

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