THE ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF LORD ROBERTS AT CAPETOWN [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF LORD ROBERTS AT CAPETOWN [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1081e
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  • Summary: Lord Roberts, the new Commander-in-Chief, arrives at Cape Town harbour, South Africa, 10th January 1900.
  • Description: An honour guard of Infantry marches into position beside the dock, past Roberts' ship, the SS Dunnottar Castle. Roberts, in Field Marshal's dress blue uniform, comes down the gangplank, followed by his staff, in khaki. Roberts gets into a horse-drawn coach, which drives off.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1081e)
  • Featured Period: Pre-1914
  • Production Date: 1900
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Warwick Trading Company (Production company) Hyman, E M (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (person) British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British auxiliary - transport: Dunnottar Castle (object name) 01/2(68).0 (event) South Africa & Cape Town <docks> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 126 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this has been taken from the Warwick catalogue for 1900 Production: this film is Warwick catalogue number 5540a Summary: the identification of this film was made by James Barker, late of the Department of Information Retrieval, Imperial War Museum, in work for the television series 'Flashback' Technical: this item is currently held on a single reel with films IWM 1081a-g, the can is marked as IWM 1081
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