300,000 Worshippers (1929)

Item title reads - 300,000 worshippers take part in great service in celebration of Centenary of Roman Catholic Emancipation; hundreds collapsed in the heat. Liverpool, Merseyside. L/S of platform and altar where archbishop (?) stands and conducts ceremony, various other clergymen are round him. L/S of the crowd, various shots as the holy men walk through the crowd, some under an awning. 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 footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.