- Title: F-9310
- Summary: THE DUKE & DUTCHESS OF WINDSOR: AN AMERICAN DIVORCEE & THE KING OF ENGLAND. THEIR ROMANCE SHOOK AN EMPIRE AS HE RENOUNCED HIS CLAIM TO THE CROWN & WENT INTO VIRTUAL EXILE WITH WALLACE SIMPSON. EDWARD VIII REIGNED FOR 325 DAYS. ABDICATED & WAS SUCCEEDED BY HIS BROTHER GEORGE VI. EDWARD-DAVID.
- Description:00:00:09 - DUKE & DUCHESS OF WINDSOR ABOARD SHIP HUGGING, KISSING, WALKING ON SHIP'S DECK. 00:00:45 - CU CROWN OF ENGLAND SPINNING SLOWLY 00:00:50 - SCENES OF EDWARD AS KING OF ENGLAND IN VARIOUS UNIFORM, DRESS. 00:01:18 - EDWARD, AGE 6, HOLDING GUN. WITH HIS BROTHER & SISTER 00:01:44 - QUEEN VICTORIA, CIRCA TURN OF CENTURY, AMID THRONGS OF ADORING BRITISH PUBLIC 00:01:57 - KING EDWARD VII, EDWARD'S GRANDFATHER, AT AGE 60 IN VARIOUS ACTIVITIES, UNIFORM, DRESS. HUNTING 00:02:32 - 1910, KING EDWARD VII'S FUNERAL. PROCESSION. 00:02:52 - GEORGE V, EDWARD'S FATHER, AS KING OF ENGLAND, WITH QUEEN MARY, REVIEWING BRITISH NAVY SHIP 00:03:14 - 1911, AT AGE 17, EDWARD VIII'S FORMAL DEBUT AS ROYALTY. AT HIS INVESTITURE. EDWARD VII CROWNING SON EDWARD VIII AS PRINCE OF WALES 00:03:42 - SCENES OF PRINCE OF WALES PERFORMING OFFICIAL DUTIES 00:04:07 - BATTLE SCENES, WORLD WAR I. PRINCE OF WALES AS OBSERVER AS DICTATED BY ROYAL EDICT. 00:04:45 - NOVEMBER, 18, 1918. SCENES OF ARMISTICE DAY. STREETS FILLED WITH CELEBRANTS. 00:04:57 - PRINCE OF WALES GOING ABOARD A ROYAL NAVY CRUISER TOUR REQUIRED OF PRINCE 00:05:06 - PRINCE OF WALES ON TOUR OF BRITISH POSSESSIONS DOMINIONS 00:05:13 - BRITISH SUBJECTS, CITIZENS WAVING MINI FLAGS 00:05:15 - SCENES OF PRINCE OF WALES ON TOUR 00:05:32 - CANADIAN VISIT, WOMEN CARRYING SHIELDS REPRESENTING PROVINCES 00:05:46 - PRINCE OF WALES AT RODEO SMOKING CIGAR 00:05:57 - EDWARD-DAVID MOUNTING HORSE AT RODEO 00:06:07 - ON VISIT IN UNITED STATES. MEETING PRESIDENT WILSON. IN MILITARY UNIFORM 00:06:18 - MEETING AMERICAN SOLDIERS, DOUGHBOYS 00:06:30 - PRINCE IN NEW YORK GREETED BY THRONGS OF ADMIRING AMERICANS. CIRCA 1920s 00:06:40 - NEW YORK CITY POLICEMEN MARCHING IN PARADE HONORING PRINCE OF WALES 00:06:46 - TICKER TAPE PARADE. SNOWING PAPER 00:07:00 - SCENES OF PRINCE'S VISIT TO WEST POINT. SUPERINTENDENT OF CADETS, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR. 00:07:20 - MONTAGE PRINCE OF WALES ON TOUR. LEI PUT AROUND HIS NECK, HAND SHAKING, 00:07:37 - WOMEN RUNNING OUT ALONG ROUTE OF MARCH TO WAVE AT PRINCE IN MOTORCADE 00:07:52 - TWO WOMEN SITTING ON GLIDER OUTDOORS. ONE TALKING ABOUT HER DANCE WITH PRINCE OF WALES. SWING CHAIR 00:08:15 - SCENES OF PRINCE'S WORLD TOUR 00:08:34 - PRINCE OF WALES, EDWARD VIII, CRANKING CAMERA. FILMS WIDOWS OF WAR 00:08:38 - MONTAGE PRINCE ON WORLD TOUR OF BRITISH POSSESSIONS, DOMINIONS 00:09:09 - PRINCE IN TRADITIONAL KILT TOURING BRITISH ISLES, PLAYING GOLF. HUNTING. RACING THOROUGHBRED HORSES 00:09:49 - PRINCE AT AIR SHOW. DAREDEVIL PILOTS OF THE 1920s PUT ON SHOW. 00:10:10 - PRINCE OF WALES TAKING FLYING LESSONS. FIRST ROYAL PRINCE TO FLY. 00:10:27 - CU KING GEORGE V WITH SON EDWARD IN MILITARY DRESS UNIFORM 00:10:31 - EDWARD-DAVID FILLING IN FOR AILING FATHER, IN MILITARY DRESS & CIVILIAN CLOTHING 00:10:45 - SCENES OF FOX HUNT, CIRCA WINTER, 1931. HOUNDS. 00:11:05 - NIGHT SCENES OF LONDON CIRCA 1931. BIG BEN'S CLOCK TOWER LIT UP. 00:11:11 - BRITISH COUPLES DANCING IN NIGHTCLUB. FLAPPER STYLE CLOTHING. WOMEN & MEN SMOKING, DANCING CU DANCING FEET 00:11:28 - AERIAL OVER BELVEDERE CASTLE, PRINCE'S PRIVATE GETAWAY HOME. 00:11:38 - MS ERNEST & WALLACE SIMPSON AT CASTLE WINDOW WITH PRINCE OF WALES. 00:12:08 - MS EDWARD & MRS. SIMPSON WATCHING HORSE RACE FROM OBSERVATION TOWER 00:12:12 - PRINCE & MRS. SIMPSON ON SKIING VACATION 00:12:30 - FUNERAL PROCESSION OF KING GEORGE V. WS MOURNING CITIZENS. 00:13:00 - ROYAL PROCLAMATION ANNOUNCING PRINCE EDWARD KING EDWARD VIII. 00:13:35 - JANUARY 20, 1936. DAVID, PRINCE OF WALES, TAKES THRONE AS KING EDWARD VIII. WATCHING MILITARY REVIEW 00:14:05 - VARIOUS ANGLES GILDED ROYAL CARRIAGE 00:14:10 - SCENES OF KING ON CRUISE ABOARD ROYAL YACHT, WITH WALLACE SIMPSON. 00:14:26 - EDWARD IN CANOE WHILE WALLACE SITS ON ROCK & SWIMMING 00:14:45 - SCENES OF DAVID-EDWARD PERFORMING DUTIES OF STATE 00:15:16 - CU PRIME MINISTER STANLEY BALDWIN IN TOP HAT 00:15:20 - MS """ GIVING ADDRESS, MOS 00:15:26 - MS WINSTON CHURCHILL IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ON TRIPODS. MAN IN B/G LEANING OUT OF WINDOW 00:15:31 - MS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 00:15:33 - DAVID'S-EDWARD'S BROTHER, PRINCE ALBERT 00:15:50 - QUEEN MARY SHOPPING, & AT FUNCTION OUTDOORS UNDER UMBRELLA 00:15:59 - SCENES OF BRITISH LEADERS, OFFICIALS LAYING WREATHS AT BASE OF MONUMENT, PRIME MINISTER BALDWIN. 00:16:22 - FACADE OF CUMBERLAND TERRACE N.W.I., WHERE WALLACE SIMPSON RESIDES 00:16:32 - MRS. SIMPSON GETTING INTO CAR WITH HORDES OF CURIOUS ONLOOKERS WATCHING 00:16:35 - MS PRIME MINISTER BALDWIN IN CIVILIAN DRESS 00:16:38 - KING EDWARD VIII IN WALES VISITING MINING CAMPS MS KING WITH WELSH MINERS & FAMILIES 00:17:07 - PRIME MINISTER GETTING INTO CAR 00:17:14 - CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINES SUPERIMPOSED OVER PRINTING PRESS 00:17:22 - CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ABOUT KING & WALLACE SIMPSON 00:17:32 - MONTAGE BRITISH CITIZENS READING NEWSPAPERS ON STREETS 00:17:43 - REPORTERS SWARMING SIMPSON'S HOME. BRITISH BOBBIES, POLICEMEN PUSHING BACK PHOTOGRAPHERS, PAPARAZZI 00:17:57 - SIMPSON IN HIDING IN RIVIERA SURROUNDED BY HORDE OF REPORTERS 00:18:10 - PRIME MINISTER BALDWIN ON ROUTE TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE CURIOUS CITIZENS LINING STREETS OF LONDON 00:18:25 - BEEFEATER, YEOMEN STANDING GUARD IN FRONT OF PALACE 00:18:28 - 10 DOWNING STREET MEETING OF BRITISH MINISTERS 00:18:36 - MONTAGE BRITISH CITIZENS STANDING ON STREETS FOR WORD FROM MINISTERS 00:18:46 - MONTAGE BRITISH OFFICIALS, LEADERS, CLERGY, SPEAKING AGAINST MARRIAGE OF KING TO SIMPSON. CITIZENS BOTH FOR & AGAINST MARRIAGE 00:20:15 - BRITISH CITIZENS MARCHING IN FAVOR OF KING EDWARD VIII. MAN ON BICYCLE WEARING SANDWICH BOARD READING "WE WANT EDWARD VIII & THE KING MUST NOT ABDICATE" 00:20:21 - CU WOMAN CARRYING POSTER "HANDS OFF OUR KING, ABDICATION MEANS REVOLUTION" 00:20:34 - MONTAGE ACTIVITIES ON STREETS OF ENGLAND. POLICE HOLDING BACK CITIZENS, PANDEMONIUM IN STREETS. 00:21:02 - QUEEN MOTHER WALKING WITH KING EDWARD VIII IN GARDENS 00:21:07 - DECEMBER 10, 1936, PRIME MINISTER BALDWIN ANNOUNCES TO PARLIAMENT EDWARD'S ABDICATION 00:21:21 - LOW ANGLE BIG BEN AT NIGHT. BELLS SOUNDING SLOWLY LIKE DEATH KNELL 00:21:32 - DUKE OF WINDSOR GIVING RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT EXPLAINING ABDICATION. MONTAGE NIGHT SCENES BUCKINGHAM PALACE. CITIZENS AT HOME LISTENING TO BROADCAST. GROUP OF MILITARY OFFICERS LISTENING TO MESSAGE. MEN IN PUBS, MEN AROUND RADIO SERVICE TRUCK LISTENING ETC... 00:22:19 - MEN IN WORKSHOP LISTENING TO RADIO 00:22:25 - MEN IN TUXEDOS LAYING & SITTING ON BUNK BEDS 00:22:28 - CU RADIO CIRCA 1936 00:22:30 - CU MAN SMOKING PIPE LISTENING TO RADIO 00:22:34 - LS NIGHT SHOT BUCKINGHAM PALACE 00:22:50 - DUKE & DUCHESS OF WINDSOR IN FRANCE POSING FOR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS 00:23:02 - CU DUKE & DUCHESS 00:23:19 - MONTAGE OF COUPLE OVER THE YEARS 00:23:27 - COUPLE WITH PUG DOGS 00:23:39 - LS COUPLE WAVING FROM CRUISE SHIP
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1890
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: F-9310