Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: The Vale of Martyrdom
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- British Movietone News
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- 4 / 5
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Vale of Martyrdom. DESCRIPTION: Tournai in Belgium is a stricken town with fleeting refugees. Arras, once the headquarters of the BEF, is also burning. The British Army has fallen back from Louvain to the Belgian frontier. SHOTLIST: Belgium: Fire burning in buildings - good shots. Refugees pour along roads - good. Day and night fires: all above at Tournai. Arras: On fire day and night - ruins. French village completely ruined. Burning Nazi plane in wood. Various shots of wrecked german planes. Red Cross Hospital: Signs on roof - various shots of damage. German Prisoners: French interrogate. Refugees by their thousands at the Gar Du Nord. People in wheelchairs, nurses tend babies, blind women given food, refugees sleep all over the place, soldier crying. BEF wounded carried on stretchers to Red Cross ship at Boulogne (this was the day before Boulogne fell to the Germans). BEF troops march single file through France - good. French troops and tanks on the move. Heavy artillery firing. CU General Weygand. Heavy Artillery Firing - CARD 39059 Various shots of heavy artillery firing. No calibres are given. Towns And Hospitals Bombed - CARD 39064 Wreckage strews the streets and a soldier is given a drink as the wounded are loaded into ambulances. Tanks move up and there is a tracking shot down a street which shows not one house which has been left undamaged. A church and a hospital have been completely ruined and the wreckage still smoulders. Among this debris is a German fighter which has been brought down. Shot of hospital showing the red cross and the damage which was done by the enemy planes. French Troops Moving Up - CARD 39065 Various shots of lorries, soldiers, and tanks moving up in mass formation. Scenes At The Gare Du Nord - CARD 39067 Shots of the wounded on stretchers. Old people, babies, kids and all there. Typical French buses take the refugees away. more refugees arrive and get out of lorries while one family arrive on a piled-up car chassis. They eat and drink and a nurse comforts a soldier who has lost his family. Nuns sort out clothes and many of the poor refugees are fitted with new shoes. Tournai And Boulogne (War Office) (Also Arras) - CARD 39079 Various shots of wreckage and the fires that blaze in consequence. At Boulogne, the wounded are taken on stretchers from ambulance to Red Cross ship and as they pass an orderly removes their identity label. Arras, too, blazes by night and in the morning the streets are cleared of the wreckage.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Food and cooking; Weapons; Aviation; Railways; Displaced persons; War damage; Propaganda; Prisoners of war; Fashion and costume; Exile; Military; Disabled persons
- Footage sources
- Rota
- Card file number
- 39064A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 350
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