A Pageant Of Merrie England (1929)

Item title reads - A pageant of Merrie England. Episode of English history enacted in Ashdown Forest, before the Duchess of York. East Sussex. M/S as Elizabeth, Duchess of York walks along with another lady, several other couples follow her. M/S as a parade of people dressed in Elizabethan costume walk past the camera. M/S as one man holds a metal bar under a hammer attached to a long wooden pole on a pivot, the hammer swings down and hits the metal, another man hits it in between the pole going up and down. M/S of a marriage, the couple kneel before clergyman who blesses them, then they walk off hand in hand with their arms raised. 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 ne