Topical Budget: Special Constables Sunday, Royal Albert Hall (1916)
ProRes digital file Black & White Mute 1916 1:08
Summary: Wartime policemen presentation.
Title number: 19937
LSA ID: LSA/26380
Description: The Special Constables were volunteers that operated at home, replacing policemen serving on the Western Front during the First World War. Hundreds are filmed marching through London streets behind a brass band, and then milling around outside the Royal Albert Hall and in Hyde Park. They are on their way to a presentation at the Albert Hall before Bishop Taylor Smith. Smiling women and bicycling boys look on.
Selected by London's Screen Archives on behalf of the BFI National Archive.
Cast: Bishop Taylor Smith
Keywords: Police; Hyde Park; First World War; Royal Albert Hall; constable
Locations: Royal Albert Hall and Hyde Park, London
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