Newsreel-style footage of London in the 1930s. A narrator describes each shot. 

Shots of preppy school boys leaving a boarding school, and a wide shot of the British Museum. 

Several shots from a zoo in Regent’s Park: bears playfully fighting, peacocks, and a giant lizard, a Komodo dragon. 

Wide shots of a bustling Piccadilly Circus, pulsating with life, thronged with shoppers, followed by shots of vendors on the street, specifically female florists. 

A wide shot of Trafalgar Square, including the National Gallery, the church St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and Lord Nelson’s Column. 

Next, wide shot of a colorful horse guard near Whitehall. A line of men on horses stroll down the street. Close-up of a stoic guard.

Shots of the Admiralty building, and the Prime Minister’s home on Downing Street. 

Last scene is of The Cenotaph, a monument to the “glorious dead,” designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.