Director: Germaine Dulac
Release Date: December 1925
On 20 November 1924 the Kinematograph Weekly noted that Alexandre Volkoff and ‘Madame Germaine Dulac, the French lady-director, and a number of leading actors of the Cine-France company have returned to Paris after a short “location” trip to London, made for the purpose of securing the necessary exteriors for their new production for Westi, which is to be a story of English Stage life.’ The same journal observed, 17 December 1925, that ‘It seems it takes a French producer, and in this case a woman, Germaine Dulac, to take advantage of London for locations. She has introduced the sincere and typically English atmosphere with some fine London shots; there are no continental exaggerations.’
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Parliament Square on a foggy day. The rather annoying counter seems a little too time consuming, and difficult, to remove.
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Unidentified. Mabel Poulton being followed by a No. 59 and No. 12 bus. On the left is Nicolas Koline while Henry Houry sits on the right. Haymarket? Regent Street?
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Unidentified. The same street.
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Unidentified. More of the same street.
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Unidentified. A sudden change of location as Koline loses his hat.
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Unidentified. Koline's hat in the road at what appears to be yet another location.
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Unidentified. Poulton looks on as Koline retrieves his hat.
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Unidentified. I think that's Houry again and I guess this could be Park Lane.
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Constitution Hill facing the Queen Victoria Memorial.
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Unidentified. Park Lane and somewhere?
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Unidentified. That appears to be a Loughton bound 38A, possibly at Hyde Park Corner.
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That's supposed to be Ivan Petrovich and I presume he's walking in the grounds of the Tower of London.