| TOM MANN Demonstration scenes, with emotive speeches and songs from Tom Mann and followers. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 480 |
| Catalog #: | 430928 | |
| Clip Number: | 430928-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1423 | |
| Timecode: | 01:12:05 - 01:17:43 | |
| Location: | London, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1927 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DEMONSTRATIONS: Protest | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 184806 TOM MANN Demonstration scenes, with emotive speeches and songs from Tom Mann and followers. Note: Rousing speeches. M/S demonstrators carrying communist banners, marching through the crowd. M/S crowd almost all wearing hats. Marchers carry anti-American placards and are escorted by police. C/U Tom Mann looking agitated - he rubs his chin. L/S crowd as cars and buses roll by. Tom delivers speech with an authoritative Lenin type stance. He and others sing a song, and the crowd wave hats, - hip, hip, hooray. C/U placards, "Save Sacco a Vanzetti". C/U man with head covered sitting in mock-up of electric chair surrounded by others. Placard says ‘Down with American Torturers’. Tom Mann Veteran Communist Leader at "Save Sacco-Vanzetti" demonstration in Trafalgar Square. London M/S large crowd gathering in Trafalgar Square, some seated around fountains. Some sit at the foot of Nelson’s Column surrounded by placards. C/U of statue of lion’s head. Tom Mann, in a light coloured suit looking suntanned, delivers a passionate and animated speech from the foot of the column to the crowd below. Men in trilbys stand behind. Tom points. | |
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