Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Nazi Sabotage Gang Grabbed by G-Men

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
684A
Date Released
16 Jul 1942
Date submitted
13 Jul 1942
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Interview with an Ace Night-Fighter
  2. 2Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Fighting France Celebrates 14th July
  3. 3Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Nazi Sabotage Gang Grabbed by G-Men
  4. 4Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: US Pilots Receive War Decorations
  5. 5Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: America’s Sea War
  6. *Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Stretford Pageant

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Section Title
Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Nazi Spies Round About. DESCRIPTION: The FBI in America have rounded up German spies who were intent on sabotage. SHOTLIST: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, exterior scenes. Shots inside of J Edgar Hoover. Shots of a U-boat surfacing, (probably from their library). Periscope cleaving through the water and interior of U-Boat. Stills of dump of explosives. Many draft-credentials and forged cards. Stills of the spies, which included Herbert Haupt and Ernst Burger, who are both American citizens and, therefore, traitors as well as spies. FBI Round Up Spy Ring - CARD 42601 CU of J Edgar Hoover of the FBI. Scenes on Florida sands where cases of TNT, detonator cap, etc., are buried. At the FBI head-quarters you see the uniforms that the spies have buried, also a money belt. Apparently innocent blocks which contain detonator caps and pencils, which are in reality incendiary bombs. One of these pencils is ignited. The story ends with shot of Hoover. Nazi Spy Trial - CARD 42619 The men arrive at the Capitol in vans. Attorney General Biddle arrives and so does Mrs Gerrard Melind, former fiancée of Herbert Haupt.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Environment; Weapons; Espionage; Navy; Crime; Military
Footage sources
Gaumont
Pathe
Card file number
42588
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
59
Story extras:
Film clip

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