Ceylon Mourns Prime Minister

Series

Series Name
Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.
52/28
Date Released
3 Apr 1952
Length of issue (in feet)
886
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Big Destroyer for Navy
  2. 2Ceylon Mourns Prime Minister
  3. 3Airplane into Car
  4. 4Templer Gets Tough
  5. 5Fashion Show in Cardiff
  6. 6Paris Hairdressing
  7. 7Trieste: Rome Demonstrations
  8. 8Newcastle-Blackburn Replay
  9. *Dundee v Third Lanark
  10. *Scottish Semi-Finals

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 8
Summary
Impressive scenes follow sudden death of Prime Minister.
Researcher Comments
Hon. D. S. Senanayake
Keywords
Politics and government
Locations
Colombo
Footage sources
Movietone
Credits:
Camera
Norman William Roper
Length of story (in feet)
91
Story extras:
Film clip
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