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Immediately after the above, a moving photographic presentment was, by means of a new lantern, thrown on to the screen, depicting the 1896 Lord Mayor's Show, with all the figures, &c., moving in a wonderfully lifelike manner. The waiting flunkeys, the soldiery and police, the seething and expectant crowd, all were there. Then was seen the Lord Mayor's coach approaching. It drew up, the flunkeys formed up in two lines, the mace-bearer and sword-bearer alight, and pass by; finally the Lord Mayor himself is beheld striding along in his weighty robes. At this point the prolonged applause testified to the audience's deep delight. The above, it should be said, was taken by Messrs. Wrench & Sons…
The British Journal of Photography, 11 décembre 1896, p. 797.
MR. ESMÉ COLLINGS, of 175, New Bond-street, writes:-"In your notice of Mr. Friese-Greene's lecture, you state the 'Mayor Mayor' film was taken by Mr. Wrench. This is an error, as it was taken by Esmé Collings, of London and Brighton."
The British journal of photography, 18 décembre 1896, p. 810.
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