LORD ROBERTS LEAVING FOR SOUTH AFRICA

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 1025c).

Synopsis

Very brief scene of Lord Roberts and his staff boarding SS Dunnottar Castle at Southampton docks for the trip to South Africa, 23rd December 1899.

Notes

Title: this has been taken from the Warwick catalogue for 1900

Production: this film is Warwick catalogue number 5521a

Summary: the identification of this film was made by James Barker, late of the Department of Information Retrieval, Imperial War Museum, in work for the television series 'Flashback'

Technical: this item is held on a single reel with films IWM 1025a-f, the can is marked as IWM 1025

 

Titles

  • LORD ROBERTS LEAVING FOR SOUTH AFRICA
 

Technical Data

Year:
1900
Running Time:
1 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
18 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Production company
Warwick Trading Company