Comedian Helps Cabinet Minister AKA Electioneering (1920)

London. Intertitle: “COMEDIAN HELPS CABINET MINISTER. Mr. Billy Merson ’electioneers’ on behalf of Dr. Macnamara, Coalition Candidate for Camberwell“. L/S of a crowd of men, all wearing hats, pan to young man giving a speech from the back of a cart, a double decker bus drives past in the back ground. One of the men appears to heckle him, the speaker replies. L/S of an older man ( probably Merson) speaking from the cart, as he speaks he waves his bowler hat at the crowd. M/S of a man in a hat (Merson?) is escorted through the crowd by a policeman, the crowd swell round him. 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 ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire N