Heralds heralding and the Earl Marshal marshalling : some b/w newsreel footage of English and Scottish kings of arms and heralds performing ceremonial duties :
* Sir Gerald Wollaston proclaiming the accession of King Edward VIII in 1936 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/procl ... -sovereign* Sir Gerald Wollaston proclaiming the date of King Edward VIII's coronation (which became King George VI's coronation instead) :
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/coronation-day* Sir Gerald Wollaston proclaiming the accession of King George VI in 1936 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/procl ... -george-vi* Sir George Bellew proclaiming the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/selec ... ka-procl-2 (no soundtrack) and
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/selec ... lamation-1 (out-takes, with soundtrack)
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/long-live-the-queen (also Clarenceux reading proclamation -- about 4 minutes into the film)
* the Earl Marshal and several officers of arms -- in mufti -- discussing plans and models for the 1953 Coronation :
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/earl-plans-coronation* Lord Lyon (Sir Thomas Innes of Learney) and Scottish heralds in the ceremonial installation of a new governor of Edinburgh Castle (Lt Gen Sir G. McMillan) in 1950 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/new-g ... -installed