ARMISTICE DAY CEREMONY IN HONG KONG
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 5064).
Synopsis
Amateur film shot by Doctor Gordon Thompson, a Church Missionary Society medical missionary working at the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research in Shanghai (1927-1937), records ceremony of Armistice Day in Hong Kong, where Colonial Governor lays wreath at Cenotaph and British Army and Royal Navy forces parade.
Notes
Summary: Original Kodak box is addressed to Dr Gordon Thompson, Foreign YMCA, 150 Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai and marked Develop Before Feb 1936, and stamped 18 Nov 1935, presumably the date of dispatch or processing.
Titles
- ARMISTICE DAY CEREMONY IN HONG KONG (Allocated)
- AMATEUR FILM BY DR GORDON THOMPSON (Alternative)
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1935
- Running Time:
- 4 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- B&W
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 100ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Cameraman
- Thompson, Hubert Gordon (Dr)