This Day - February 18 No 1 (1922-1954)

Title reads: “This Day - February 18th“. Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century. Feb 1956 - TV antennas in 1956, for first independent television. Earlier shots of aerials for first broadcasts in 1935. Television in its early stages: spinning wheels, flickering lens, etc. 1920s CU buffer belt keeps gentlemen at distance when dancing. VS Rag in Birmingham. Feb 1924 - Scenes of rail strike, idle engines and stations. Strikers meet an MP Mr Bromley. VS Man bending steel bars around head. VS of Birmingham firemen in training. Feb 1924 - First Labour government. CU Ramsay MacDonald. VS of Arthur Henderson. Feb 1925 - Birmingham’s Hall of Memory opened. Admiral Jellicoe riding through streets of Birmingham, inspecting naval troops. Feb 1929 - Duke and Duchess of York open generating station in Coleshill. VS of Hams Hall power station. Duke (later King George VI) starts generator. Feb 1927 - Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) visits British Industries Fair (BIF