Great Film of London in the Early 1930s - Film 1041900

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London 1930's

"Mother City of the British Empire"

A film showing the life of London, probably dates to circa 1931.

LONDON

Title: "The British Isles are centrally located in relation to the principal land masses of the world"

Globe of the world, with labels showing the location of North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. Zooms into UK.

Title: "London. 'The mother city of the British Empire'"

Globe showing the British Isles. Star is placed over London, with lines radiating outwards.

Title: "Modern transportation and communications connect London with the world-wide dominions of the British Commonwealth of Nations."

Waves. Boats at sea. Shipping. Aviation. Bi-plane. Railway. Steam train. Bus. Communication masts. Men working.

Title: "On an island, commercial prosperity must depend upon the development of maritime shipping."

Harbour / Port, large boats. Goods being loaded onto and off ship by cranes and dockworkers. Steam locative engine being leveraged off ship by crane, tied with ropes. Bananas on conveyor belt.

Title: "The Tower Bridge and the Tower of London are famous throughout the world."
Tower Bridge, River Thames with boats, Tower of London

Title: "Each day thousands of workers commute to the city from the suburbs."
Steam train pulling out of station. Men and women walking in street. People on Underground escalators. Closeup of legs as people walk by on busy street. Doubledecker bus, advertising sign reads 'Martells Cognac Brandy'.

Title: "Trafalgar Square is the center of the metropolitan area."
View of the plinths in Trafalgar Square and the traffic. Nelson's Column and the lion statues. National Gallery. St Martin-in-the-Fields church. Closeup of one of the lion statues with St Martin-in-the-Fields church behind it. Woman and two girls walk in square surrounded by pigeons. Girls wear light coloured knee length dresses and all wear hats. They buy seed from a man and then kneel down to feed the pigeons. From a position at Admirality Arch, a flag, with Union Jack in the canton (upper left-hand quarter) and a crest at lower right (possibly the Canadian Red Ensign) waves in the wind. View of busy street scene below with cars and double decker buses. Closeup of cars, one with large front headlamps driving along road. Man walks alongside, filming with a hand held camera.

Title: "The signals are familiar but notice that traffic passes to the left."
Advertising signs in shop. Traffic lights set to 'STOP'. People waiting to cross street. Man on bicycle. Lots of cars and buses.

Title: "Piccadilly Circus - before and after the removal of the Statue of Eros"
Camera pans from the status of Eros (Anteros) down Coventry Street (A4). Tall streetlamps, horse drawn cart, cars, people. London Trocadero. Closeup of Eros statue, then switches to shot with the statue removed. (The statue was removed in 1922 for the reconstruction of the Piccadilly Circus Underground Station; it was returned in 1931, and then removed again temporarily at the outbreak of World war Two).

Title: "Activities of the working day present a varied spectacle"
Tall chimneys with smoke / steam coming out of them. Industrial setting by the river Thames with a bridge in the distance. Man works with machinery. Open top bus.

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