BRITAIN DECIDES The Conservative party win the 1951 General Election with a small majority.
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Tape Master:5698
Catalog #:30750
Clip Number:30750-1
Orginal Film:51/87
Timecode:01:10:47 - 01:15:12
Location:Great Britain
Year Shot:1951 (Actual Year)
Audio:Yes
Color:No
Headings:ELECTIONS: Results
ELECTIONS: Voting
LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK
PERSONALITIES: Attlee, Clement
PERSONALITIES: Churchill, Sir Winston
PERSONALITIES: Morrison, Herbert Stanley
POLITICS: Political Party, British, Conservatives (Tory)
POLITICS: Political Party, British, Labour
Description:Same as catalog # 430774. See also catalog #s 28516, 30752, 28503, 70688, 30754.

"Britain Decides" The Conservative party wins the 1951 General Election with a small majority.

Great Britain

LV Winston Churchill coming out onto steps at Woodford Town Hall, Essex. SV Crowd waving. CU Angle shot Mayor announcing Result (no natural sound). SV Press photographers. CU Pan from Mayor to Mr. Churchill and Clementine Churchill. VS Election posters. SV Clement Attlee and family walking to Caxton Hall to vote. CU Polling station sign. SV Attlee and family walking into Hall. SV Polling station sign. Harpenden, Hertfordshire. SV Dr. Charles Hill walking to polling Station. CU Dog sitting in a basket with a sign on it reading "Vote Conservative." SV Herbert Morrison handing polling card to Canvasser in Eltham, London. CU Morrison. SV Women entering Polling Station. SV Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, who is 101 years old, walking to Polling station at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. SV People walking into polling Station at Walthamstow. CU Mrs. Attlee at wheel of car knitting. CU of Attlee. GV Churchill enters St. Stephen's Hall, Kensington. SV Crowds surrounding Churchill as he enters St. Stephen's Hall, Kensington. SV Policeman handing Ballot Boxes (interior.). VS Crowds in Piccadilly Circus watching election results. GV Pan interior people at Empress Club. CU Hand filling in state of Party's Form. LV interior Mayor reading result at Walthamstow. SV Crowd applauding. SV Attlee and Wallace waving to crowd. VS Crowds in Trafalgar Sq. SV Clerk hands state of parties to Lord Woolton and official places pin on map at Conservative Party HQ, Victoria Street. GV Crowds in Trafalgar Sq. SV Mrs. Attlee sitting by. (Still knitting.) CU Attlee and Morgan Phillips at Transport House. CU Ballot papers being taken from pile on table. MS Daily Herald Newspaper headline "Tories Gaining." VS of other newspaper headlines showing Tory victory and Labour defeat. SV Mr. and Mrs. Churchill arriving at Woodford. VS Churchill speaking, "And now perhaps there may be a lull in our Party Strife which will enable us to understand more what is good in our opponents and not to be very clever in finding out all their shortcomings. I thank the returning officer and all who have assisted for the faithful and the cheerful and efficient way in which they have discharged their duties and I wish you all, whatever party you belong, Good Fortune for Yourselves and for our island Home." Crowd shots are intercut with Churchill's speech. VS Mr. and Mrs Churchill - Churchill gives V sign and turns into Town Hall.
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