| GREAT NAVIGATOR AND EMPIRE BUILDER Representatives of New Zealand and New South Wales attend bicentenary celebrations for Captain James Cook. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5393 |
| Catalog #: | 179661 | |
| Clip Number: | 179661-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1537 | |
| Timecode: | 01:01:35 - 01:02:46 | |
| Location: | Ayton, Yorkshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1928 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Memorial LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Yorkshire | |
| Description: | Great navigator and Empire builder. Sir James Parr and Sir George Fuller representing New Zealand and New South Wales (discovered by the great navigator) attend Captain James Cook bicentenary celebrations. Ayton, Yorkshire (?) L/S as members of the army and navy walk along. L/S as the camera pans across crowds and armed forces to a table where men are sat writing, others are making speeches on a platform. L/S of the platform surrounded by people. M/S of clergymen walking in graveyard with another man (Fuller ?, Parr ?). They look at the grave. C/U of Cook's headstone. | |
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