How Britain Votes Reel 4 (1951)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Cuts from documentary ’How Britain Votes’, in the context of the 1950 Election - Reel 4. Oxford by-election. C/U of votes being placed in ballot box. General view of Westminster Abbey with Big Ben in background and buses going by; pan round to show entrance of ’Conservative and Unionist Central Office’. C/U of writ, showing Lord Chancellor’s seal. Exterior shot of Oxford Town Hall with traffic in foreground. C/U of ballot paper with names Brown, Jones and Smithson, pencil marking cross beside Jones and paper being folded over. Young man walks up to clerks at Polling Station; his name is ticked off and he takes his ballot paper to a booth. More shots of votes being dropped into boxes. C/U of poster reading ’Notice of Election - Parliamentary Election - Leeds South Constituency’ being pasted up on wall. C/Us of Parliamentary notices for St Marylebone, Aberdeen North and one for several constituencies in the Merseyside area