Remarkable Scenes

Civilian and military cameramen captured silent newsreel footage of the raucous American holiday in the British capital, 142 year years after the Declaration of Independence.

REMARKABLE SCENES AT CHELSEA, read a headline the next day in The Times of London. “It took us completely away to those distant times when we could rejoice under a blue sky without looking for Zeppelins and Gothas. The afternoon was crammed full of extraordinary moments. It passed in such a pandemonium as was perhaps never heard before on an English playing field; not even on a football ground.”