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Topical Budget 646-1: The Man Who Would Lead Labour (1924)
 

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Title: "The Man Who Would Lead Labour. Exclusive studies of Mr Ramsay MacDonald at Lossiemouth".

Ramsay MacDonald in close-up.

Title: "Lossiemouth - the little Scotch fishing village where he was born".

A static shot of the village and a pan across some boats.

Title: "And obviously a 'Plus Four' Premier!"

MacDonald walks up to his house, wearing plus fours.

Title: "The modest home of the knickerbockered man, whose advent to Power would mark a change in our history as revolutionary as Magna Charta [sic]."

Ramsay MacDonald's house.

Title: "With his daughter Ishbel and his son Malcolm."

The trio pose for the camera.

"Title: Miss MacDonald (Ishbel) is studying Social Science."

Close-up of Ishbel MacDonald.

Title: "A chat with friends of his childhood days."

MacDonald talks to two people outside a house.

Title: "And a cigarette instead of the pipe so cherished by Mr Bonar Law and Mr Baldwin.

Close-up of MacDonald smoking a cigarette.

Title: "The beautiful 'Motherhood' memorial in Lincoln's Inn Fields, to the beloved wife Mr MacDonald lost in 1911."

Two shots of the memorial, the second in close up.