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MITCHELL AND KENYON 526 UNIVERSITY PROCESSION ON DEGREE DAY, BIRMINGHAM   [Assigned Title]

MITCHELL AND KENYON 526 BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY   [Alternative Title]
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Country of Origin: Great Britain
Year of origin: 1901
Genre: n/a
Locations of shooting: n/a

Credits
Shot by: Thomas-Edison Pictures
[Commissioner and Exhibitor]: Thomas, Arthur Duncan
Additional Photography: Mitchell and Kenyon


Keywords: Birmingham, Birmingham University, Bootblacks, Shoeblacks, Street scenes, University of Birmingham
Various scenes at Birmingham University occasion. Replacement title (0.07). Procession
of University dignitaries in academic robes walks left to right past camera. The procession
includes two women (0.38). Views of the crowds and policemen on crowd duty (1.04). Policemen,
walking two abreast leaving the location followed by children looking at the camera (1.28).
Policemen, marching five abreast file past the camera in a courtyard (?) (2.06). MCU police
inspector (?) (2.10); he then marches past the camera (2.15). A boot black at work in a street
(2.23). Traffic and street scene with statue of Queen Victoria in the background - possibly
Victoria Square (2.31mns). Early 1900s saw the creation of 'redbrick' Universities of Leeds,
Sheffield and Birmingham. Shows middle-class women receiving their degrees from Chancellor Joseph
Chamberlain. Information provided by Dr. Vanessa Toulmin, National Fairground Archive, University
of Sheffield.

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