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Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 371-1 (fragment 2) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 461c
Other titles:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 371-1 (fragment 2) [Alternative Title]
Summary: Newsreel item on Private R E Cruickshank receiving a gold watch from Lieutenant-General R S S Baden-Powell, Tottenham, London, 28th September 1918.
Description: The ceremony takes place in a park. A crowd of Boy Scouts watches as Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, presents Cruickshank, a former scout and VC winner with the London Scottish, with a gold watch on behalf of Cruickshank's employers, Lipton's.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth (person)
Cruickshank, Robert Edward (person)
British Army, London Regiment, Bn 14 (regiment/service)
Boy Scouts (regiment/service)
Liptons (regiment/service)
Keywords: ceremonies, British - event-related: presentation (gold watch) (object name)
31/3(41) (event)
GB, England & London, N <Tottenham> (geography)
Children (concept)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 48 ft; Running time: 1 min
HD Media:Yes
Notes: Production: see IWM 651a for production details
Summary: note that another English language version of this issue is IWM 461a
Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 461a, IWM 461b and IWM 461d, the can marked as IWM 461