General Booth Gives Party To Slum Children (1937)

Full title reads: “BOXMOOR“. Boxmoor, Children waving through the coaches windows. Coaches driving along the road. Fifteen hundred of London’s poorest children spending a day in the country with the Salvation Army. Various shots of the children enjoying fun rides and playing at country fair. Several shots of the children eating lunch in the improvised canteen. Salvation Army General Evangeline Boot, the organiser of the event, addresses the children. She is talking about her trip around the world, about visiting India and seeing Indian children singing. She starts singing the song the Indian children sang for her and children sing along - “We want everyone to be happy...“ 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 inc