Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Trail of the Bomber

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
572
Date Released
20 May 1940
Date submitted
17 May 1940
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: News from Norway
  2. 2Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Mediterranean Fleet at Alexandria
  3. 3Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: The First Parachute Prisoners in England
  4. 4Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: The BEF is There
  5. 5Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Trail of the Bomber

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Section Title
Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Namur Bombarded - Belgium. DESCRIPTION: The Nazi Air Force is wreaking havoc across France and Belgium. The roads are lined with refugees in scenes reminiscent of 1914. The city of Namur is devastated, leaving whole streets of uninhabitable houses. SHOTLIST: Fires rage uncontrollably and wreckage fills the streets. A man walks slowly through and he appears to be blind. Indescribable havoc is everywhere and inside of house corpses, terribly mutilated, strew the floor. All scenes are very similar throughout the story but are by far the best scenes of this sort seen so far. French tractors take artillery ammunition up to the forward sectors. Various ruins and bodies lying around. (Maternity hospital) which was bombed.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Weapons; War damage; Propaganda; Disabled persons
Card file number
39011
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
147
Story extras:

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