Front Line Newspaper (Commentary by Major Frank Owen)

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
45/10
Date Released
1 Feb 1945
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Athenians Demonstrate
  2. 2Australia’s Big Day
  3. 3Truce Train from St Nazaire
  4. 4Front Line Newspaper (Commentary by Major Frank Owen)

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
Men of the 14th Army advancing through mud in the jungle of Burma, but wherever they are they have their own newspaper delivered to them. General scenes inside the office of the SEAC newspaper in Calcutta. Overseas editions of British dailies as well as the SEAC newspapers are distributed from here. As the papers come off the press Indians sort and address them. In Burma, newspapers and mail are unloaded from plane and patients are seen reading them in hospital and various CUs of soldiers in the jungle reading their paper.
Keywords
Mass media; Military
Locations
India; Calcutta; Burma
Length of story (in feet)
296
Story extras:
Film clip
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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