The Wonderful Story 1922
A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
London is viewed from the 'new and fascinating angle' of Regent's Canal, passing from the docks in Limehouse through east London, under Mile End Road, past Hackney, King's Cross, Kentish Town, Camden Lock and London Zoo, finishing in Paddington Basin.
A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.
The real London locations which formed the settings for various Dickens novels are shown, sometimes with characters from the books such as Little Nell and Grandad, Fagin, the Artful Dodger and the author himself superimposed.
London's cosmopolitan inhabitants are celebrated in this episode, featuring scenes of Italian, French and Greek shops in Soho and the Whitechapel Road.
A cockney Coster exhorts his 'moke' (donkey) to take a trip to the outskirts of London to see the model home at Kennington Park, a windmill at Brixton, the Crystal Palace, Woolwich free ferry, Saint Augustine's Tower in hackney, Richmond, Strand-on-the-Green, White City with its old Olympic stadium, and the Old Kent Road.
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
A round-up of free events in London, including street entertainers, a puppet show, pavement artists, road menders, a daring demonstration by the fire brigade, an abduction staged by a film company and a military parade.
A look at the Londoner's love of flowers, from domestic gardens and florist's shops to the great market at Covent Garden and the Piccadilly Circus flower girls.
Featuring views behind the usual facade of London's streets including the mews behind St. George's Hospital, Philios Terrace, Kinnerton Street, Dr Johnson's house and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Essex Stairs, Bankside, Clerkenwell and Smithfield.
A spy has his son steal an Admiral's submarine plans.
A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.
This episode features some favourite Sunday activities of Londoners, including scenes at the Gaiety Theatre and a young couple riding a motorcycle. A romantic scene on London Bridge contrasts with the bustle of Petticoat Lane's Sunday market - a popular destination for the common folk - while high society ride in Hyde Park.
A pleasure boat takes us up the Thames from Canbury Gardens, below Kingston, Surrey, to Shepperton showing the grand houses fronting on to the river and houseboats of the well-to-do.
A whirlwind tour of London's best-loved visitor attractions, bustling thoroughfares and public spaces, including Threadneedle, Bond and Fleet Streets, Cheapside, the Strand and Piccadilly Circus, amongst others.
In this episode of Wonderful London, comparisons are made between West End and East, old and new.
A tour by horse-drawn bus, narrated by the driver, contrasts new buildings under construction in London with the old, travelling from the City along Middle Temple Lane, passing Clifford's Inn, The Strand, Piccadilly, St. James' Palace, Kingsway, Lincoln's Inn, St. Sepulchre's church, the Old Bailey and Staple Inn.