Shakespeare’s Birthday (1920)

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Intertitle: “SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHDAY. Nation pays tribute to immortal memory of the ’Bard of Avon’“. Slow panning M/S the Mayor and other local dignitaries holding large wreaths of flowers. M/S of a procession of men and women walking past an old Tudor house with exposed beams, many of the people carry flowers. M/S, taken from behind trees and gravestones in a cemetery, of the procession passing. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All foot