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Armistice Day Poppies

Newsreel tribute to the WWI fallen on the 10th anniversary of the war's end.

Non-Fiction 1928 Silent

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Overview

The annual Armistice Day events inevitably had special significance on the 10th anniversary of the end of WWI. This short Topical Budget item isn't so much news in itself as a film memorial - a sombre yet proud tribute to the fallen - and also, perhaps, an implicit exhortation to those watching who had yet to buy their poppies.

The lines that start the item come from John McRae's poem 'In Flanders Fields', while the rest are taken from Sir John Stanhope Arkwright's O Valiant Hearts, which had by this time been put to music and included in the hymn book Songs of Praise.

Original title
Armistice Day Poppies Topical Budget 898-2
Genres
Non-Fiction
Released
1928
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English

Subjects

Poppies Remembrance Day