Summing Up No. 15 - Reel 2 (1950)

Reel 2. Britain: General Election campaigning 1950. People listen to political speeches. Posters are seen for Williams and O’Donovan. Eccentric looking candidate Albert Perry raises a laugh when he announces “I want to see a woman Prime Minister“. Polling Stations. Scene in a pub where people listen to results on radio. Crowds in the streets at night. Votes are counted. Results are displayed. Some trouble in the crowd. Newspaper office and presses. Downing Street: Labour party members. Churchill speaks. New members attend Parliament. People on the streets. Dockers strike. C/U shots of dock workers. Stevedores strike. Soldiers take on dock work. Paris: demonstrators clash with police. Protest against newspaper publishing memoirs of Gestapo chief Otto Skorzeny. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRI