Silent Black and White movie clips of Elgar:

Here are a number of short black and white silent movie clips of Elgar taken in the last few years of his life.

They are presented as short .mov files and should play on your screen as Quick Time movies (I hope!).

As this is a new experimental part of this web-site please let me know (gerontius@oocities.com) if you are able or, more importantly, not able, to download / play these clips. Thanks.

The links below lead to each clip:

Clip 1: Elgar conducting in Studio 1 at E.M.I. circa 1931. (2.4Mb)

Clip 2: Elgar and his dogs Marco, Mina and Meg. (2.2Mb)

Clip 3: Walking in the woods with Marco and Mina. (3.8Mb)

Clip 4: Outside Hereford Cathedral. Elgar speaks directly to the camera in close-up. Can any lip-readers tell us what he is saying? (1.3Mb)

Clip 5: Kite-flying on the Malvern Hills. (0.9Mb)


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