Description: George V and Queen Mary attend the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley,

accompanied by the Topical Budget cameras. The king opened the

exhibition in 1924, and here attended as a sight-seer. The royals are shown

squeezed into a miniature railway – although one small boy, identified by

the caption as “Jim”, refuses to share a carriage with the king, much to

everyone’s amusement. Jim is replaced by young Joan Mollison, who insists

the king is “a very nice man”.

Selected by London's Screen Archives on behalf of the BFI National Archive