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C.I.V. Procession. Cyclists and Infantry

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C.I.V. Procession. Cyclists and Infantry

The following four films were taken from a special position in Hyde-park, commanding a view along the Edgware-road, and they show the procession coming forward from the extreme distance and turning round right in the foreground of the picture. The views are all most effective, and are at the same time very picturesque and beautiful representations of an unique ceremony.
158. C.I.V. PROCESSION. CYCLISTS AND INFANTRY.
In this photograph a further portion of the procession is excellently reproduced. Following the massed bands of the Civil Service Rifles, the Queen's Westminsters, and the Artists comes a little group of Volunteers with their khaki-coloured cycles, which have done such excellent service in the Transvaal. Immediately behind them march the first half of the C.I.V. Battalion, chatting and laughing and smoking, and seemingly quite indifferent to the tumultuous cheering of the huge crowds on either side of the roadway. In their midst proudly marches a trooper who carriers the flag of the late United Dutch Republic, the flag which was captured by the C.I.V.'s at Jacobsdaal. Length, 100ft.

The Era, Londres, samedi 3 novembre 1900, p. 31.

C.I.V. Procession. Cyclists and Infantry

Further portion of the Procession. Following the massed bans of the Civil Service Rifles, the Queen's Westminsters, and the Artists, comes a little group of volunteers with their khaki-coloured cycles which have done suche excellent service in the Transvaal. Immediately behind them march the first halt of the C.I.V. Battalion, chatting and laughing, and smoking. In their midst proudly marched a trooper who carried the flag of the late United Dutch Republic, the flag which was captured by the C.I.V.'s at Jacobsdal. Length, 100 ft.

The Era, Londres, samedi 3 novembre 1900, p. 30. [L. Gaumont & Cie]

C.I.V. Procession. Cyclists and Infantry

In this photograph the procession in London is excellently reproduced. Following the massed bands of the Civil Service Rifles, the Queen's Westminsters, and the Artists, comes a little gorup of volunteers with their kharki-coloured cycles which have done such excellent service in the Transvaal. Immediately behind them march the first half of the C.I.V. Battalion, chatting, and laughing, and smoking, and scemingly quite indifferent to the tumultuous cheering of the huge crowds on either side of the roadway. In their midst proudly marched a trooper who carried the flag of the late United Dutch Republic, the flag which was captured by the C.I.V.s at Jacobsdaal.

HEPWORTH 1903.

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1	Hepwix Films 158	Gaumont 158B. Wrench.
	The C.I.V. Procession. An opportunity unique in the history of the nation was given to the cinematographers of London when our heroic citizens returned home from the battlefield, and this opportunity was of course seized by Messrs. Hepworth and Co., of Walton-on-Thames, who obtained four excellent films of the procession as it came along Edgware Road. We hear on good authority that these films are some of the finest taken on that momentous day, and they will be fully appreciated by all the true loyalists of our country who know so well how to give honour and praise to those by whom it is merited. Messrs. Hepworth & Co. have also a long list of other interesting pictures, including some of the C.I.V.'s on their way home, and many other attractive subjects. The Showman, décembre 1900, p. 22.
2	Henry V. Lawley
	Then there are several more of these alleged 'comics' whose only interest now is that they seem to show gradual progress to better work, and then we come to more news pictures of the return of the C.I.V.s from South Africa, and to no less than nine films of life in the British Army and thirty similarly devoted to the Navy-all, I think, taken by our new recruit, H. V. Lawley, who had, by then, been with us long enough to learn how to use a camera, and use it to good effect. HEPWORTH Cecil M., Came the Dawn: Memories of a Film Pioneer, Londres, Phoenix House, 1951, p. 55-56.
3	27/10/1900	100 ft.
	The Derbyshire Times, samedi 27 octobre 1900, p. 6.
4	Grande-Bretagne. Londres. Hyde Park.