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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221223-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1955
Country: Italy,Singapore
Location: Sicily,SiracUSA
TC Begins: 05:22:12
TC Ends: 05:28:18
Duration: 00:06:06
Churchill & Wife, Mediterranean; Singapore Election Winston Churchill & wife, Clementine, off BEA plane & down stairs, greeted by civilians and followed by military & police. Through crowd in terminal. Ext. of Villa Politi hotel. Balcony, gardens, vegetation, flowers, 05:23:29 Greek amphitheater w/ tourists walking about. Pan down. Man playing guitar in parking lot, tourists leaving. Hotel exterior & couple walking on grounds. 05:24:18 Cactus & stone details of large grotto or well. Views of plants & hotel but almost no people. Trees, balconies. Grotto & people enter. Amphitheater. 05:25:53 Newsreel cameramen and another take of arrival of Churchill’s plane & greeting. 05:26:46 Singapore w/ pan to old buildings. Man leads horse w/ banner to vote for Simon. Banner for J.M. Jumabhoy, Labour / Labor; posters saying Our Vote Is Secret. Candidate speaking to small group; others including woman. People lined up to vote. Sign: Polling station. 05:27:50 Boy Scouts carrying ballot boxes; night and cheering crowd. Two candidates shaking hands. Winner carried through streets at night. Tourism; Colonization; Archaeology; Election; Rendel Constitution; Self-Governance; End of Empire; ca 1955; Election Campaign; Asia; Colonialism Aftermath;