Another General Election (1924)

London and Windsor, Berkshire.



Title: "ANOTHER GENERAL ELECTION? Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and whole Socialist Cabinet, attend Labour's most momentous Conference".



M/S of members of the cabinet leaving large government building - including Mr. Joseph Robert Clynes and Stephen Walsh, Minister for War. M/S of two men - one could be Ramsay MacDonald, coming out of what appears to be a city hotel, a crowd of men - journalists and photographers? - cheer them as they pass.



M/S of four men - MacDonald, J. H. Thomas (Colonial Secretary), Arthur Henderson (Home Secretary) and another unidentified man - sitting in an open topped horse drawn carriage. M/S of four more men - Cabinet members? - getting into a carriage. C/U of a woman sitting in a carriage.



L/S of a convoy of horse drawn carriages travelling up a hill towards a Windsor Castle. M/S of two men sitting in an open topped carriage.



Note: for more stories about the dissolution of the 1924 Labour government please see both versions of - GOVERNMENT DEFEATED - in G 1125. AH 2000.



Alternative spelling for search purposes - Ramsey McDonald.
FILM ID:358.2

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