Remembrance Day (1946)

Item title reads Remembrance Day. Intertitle Laurence Olivier speaks Binyon s For the C, U as Big Ben strikes 11 o clock. The camera pans across war graves, C, U s of individual inscriptions. Various shots as injured soldiers are helped or carried through the jungle. M, S as a lady cries and mourns over a grave. M, S as cars come to a stop and a man takes his hat off, M, S of a nurse with two injured men observing the silence. M, S as a woman puts flowers on a war memorial. C, U of a solitary shepherd standing and observing the silence. Various shots of the ceremony at London s Cenotaph. Various shots of a mother and her little son and daughter (typifying a war widow), a man s photograph stands on the wireless. Various shots as her children play with a toy tank. Various shots as servicemen march. M, S looking out to sea from a ship. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSI