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World Coverage of Movietone - Compared by Leslie Mitchell: King Ghazi Opens Basra Airport

Date released

18 Apr 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

463

NoS ID

008716

Story no

6 / 12

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aerial Shots of the Air Field at Basra. SHOTLIST: Aerial shots of the air field at Basra and also King Ghazi arriving by boat to open it. All shots unsteady, over exposed and shaky.

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Axis Agents Leave Iran

Date released

6 Nov 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/89

NoS ID

099116

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

In a prison camp at Basra are Axis agents who have been thrown out of Iran, and at a port on the Persian Gulf about 600 Germans and Italians are about to be shipped out of the country.

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: With Supplies into Iran

Date released

20 Nov 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

650A

NoS ID

012034

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: With Our Supplies Into Iran. DESCRIPTION: Supplies are unloaded at Basra to be shipped up country to troops in Iran. SHOTLIST: At Basra, the supplies are unloaded from the ships,...

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All in the Day’s Work

Date released

9 Feb 1931

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

1015-2

NoS ID

133736

Story no

2 / 5

Three RAF flying boats take off at Felixstowe on a 3,500 mile flight to Basra.

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RAF Flying Boats At Felixstowe For Basra

Date released

9 Feb 1931

Series name

Gaumont Sound News

Issue no

121

NoS ID

379915

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Oil from Iraq

Date released

21 Jan 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1181

NoS ID

017561

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From Iraq. DESCRIPTION: The Iraqi town of Basra, North of the Persian Gulf, dates from the 7th century, though it seems that little progress has been made there since ancient times;...

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MODERN ARMADA LEAVES PLYMOUTH

Date released

4 Mar 1929

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1873

NoS ID

384428

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Giant flying boats [airplanes] take the air at Cattewater, England, en route for Basra.

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Youngest Air Traveller?

Date released

22 Dec 1932

Series name

Pathe Super Gazette

Issue no

32/102

NoS ID

090321

Story no

3 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Mr Richards and his little two-year-old motherless son, Ian, home after 4,000-mile air journey from Basra, Persia.

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Giant Plane of the Air

Date released

27 Sep 1928

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1541

NoS ID

087132

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

3 engined all-metal hulled 13 ton "Iris-Blackburn" flying boat, largest yet destined for RAF base at Basra, launched.

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Back From The Front

Date released

5 Apr 1915

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

421

NoS ID

382834

Story no

3 / 7

NoS synopsis: The first wounded from the British landing at Basra arriving back in India.

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