Alexander Family Films, Trip to England 1930

Описание: Primarily footage of London (including some commercial tourist film sequences) and on board the R.M.S. Berengaria.

The film sequences (untitled) clearly identifiable are:
Footage on boat in harbor
Cliffs of Dover
Commercial tourist film: “Seeing London: Part One Westminster and Whitehall”
“We look first at Westminster Abbey and the Towers of Parliament ---“
“In St. Stephens Tower hangs the biggest bell of London --- Big Ben ---“
“The oldest thing in London – Cleopatra’s Needle—The pedestal was scarred by a German bomb ---“
“--- but when that bomb fell, the British Sphinx never even blinked ---“
“Somerset House—the home of many musty but important papers ---“
“St. Paul’s—largest of London’s churches ---“
“The broad way called Whitehall leads toward Trafalgar Square”
“ ‘We want what want when we want it ---‘ “
“The New War Offices”
“The Government Offices”
“The most important street in the British Empire -- Downing Street -- a little street where big decisions are reached ---“
“The most important house in Downing Street --- the residence of the Prime Minister”** (5:31)
African or British African students with Sadie T.M. Alexander, London?
Windsor Castle
Child and women with Sadie T.M. Alexander, London?
Unidentified Africans/African Americans/African British men in London
Various scenes on the R.M.S. Berengaria on their return voyage home from Southampton to New York, September 1930
Sadie T.M. Alexander with her sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth Mossell and Page Anderson, getting out of car at North Broad Street Station in Philadelphia.


Archives Collection Number: UPT50A374_110_05