Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The King to His People

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
590A
Date Released
26 Sep 1940
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The King to His People
  2. 2Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: London Carries On
  3. 3Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Seavacuee Survivors Still Smiling
  4. 4Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Col. Baldwin-Webb, MP
  5. 5Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Troops "Au Revoir" to Shanghai
  6. 6Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: China is Still Taking It
  7. 7Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Bluejackets Take over US Destroyers
  8. 8Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Ernie Roderick Beats Eric Boon’s "Blitz"

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 8
Section Title
Movietone’s Review of the War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The King to His People. DESCRIPTION: His Majesties speech is illustrated with pictures of life going on despite the Nazi blitz. SHOTLIST: The King’s broadcast speech illustrates with shots of damage etc, some to Buckingham Palace. The main part however is about the children who were so cruelly torpedoed when they were going to safety on the Seavacuees ship "City of Benares". These references are illustrated with shots of the homecomings of the survivors.
Keywords
Royalty; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Ships and boats; Communications; War damage; Civil defence; Evacuees; Navy; Military
Card file number
39971
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
146
Story extras:
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