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Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, was the most hallowed day in the newsreel calendar, and the story often occupied an entire newsreel. The sense of wartime sacrifice was still very fresh in the public memory, and as the opening title reminds us, "the whole Empire was hushed into ... silence." Featured here at the Cenotaph are the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of York, the Duke of Kent, prime minister Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill and Austen Chamberlain.
Luke McKernan
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Complete Film (2:50)
