Summary: I. Newsreel item on General Pershing and the US Army of Occupation, in Britain on its way home, October 1921.
II. Newsreel item on a student rag at a Paris Engineering College, October 1921.
III. Newsreel item on a sea angling festival at Hastings, October 1921.
IV. Newsreel item on a Salvation Army ship about to sail from Hull to India, October 1921.
Description: I. A troopship carrying Lieutenant-General John Pershing and US soldiers comes into Dover harbour, where it is met by the local garrison commander. Then a formal ceremony in London, in which Pershing joins in a British military procession to Westminster Abbey, where he presents the Unknown Warrior with the US Congressional Medal of Honor. He then goes on to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall (note the cine-cameraman at work).
II. The camera, from a safe high angle, records the students milling around in the quadrangle being showered with water and conducting a mock bullfight.
III. The Fifth Annual Festival of the National Federation of Sea Anglers starts with the small rowing boats putting out to sea and the anglers starting their rod-and-line fishing. Interested spectators watch from the beach.
IV. According to the captions, the Salvation Army team, gathered from all over the world, is about to sail for missionary activity in India. They parade through the streets and board the SS Calypso for their journey. Many of them are Indian, and wear Salvation Army uniform with a turban. Some of the women, Indian or not, wear saris. They display the Salvation Army banner.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Pershing, John Joseph (person)
United States Army & Army of Occupation (regiment/service)
National Federation of Sea Anglers (regiment/service)
Salvation Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: ceremonies, British - display: parade (object name)
delegations, United States international - military (object name)
casualties, British graves - formal (object name)
buildings, British - monumental: Cenotaph (object name)
journalism and record, British - cameraman (object name)
recreation, French civilian - casual (object name)
recreation, British civilian - sport: angling (object name)
religion, Christianity - ceremonial, British (object name)
ships, British civilian - passenger: Calypso (object name)
GB, England & London, SW <Westminster Abbey & Whitehall> (geography)
Dover, Kent, England, UK (geography)
Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
Hastings, Sussex, England, UK (geography)
GB, England & Hull, Yorks (geography)
Race (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: None
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 333 ft; Running time: 6 mins
