Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Out of Hitler’s Europe
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Out of Hitler’s Europe. Repatriated Prisoners Home. DESCRIPTION: Repatriated prisoners arrived at Liverpool aboard the Arundel Castle and two Swedish ships the Gripsholm and Drottningholm. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. GV "Arundel Castle" coming up Mersey River. Other views of her. Cut-ins of crowds, nurses waving. "Gripsholm" coming in. "Drottningholm" coming in. Various shots of civilians & military personnel disembarking. Son greets his mother. MS Adj. General Sir Ronald Adam, makes short speech "we hope to have all our boys home soon, also Germany can’t last much longer" - cut-ins of repatriates lined on decks waving cheering, etc. Stretcher cases taken off ships. Various shots of wounded. Group of Empire soldiers speak for the mike "How glad they are to be back etc".
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Health and medicine; Prisoners of war; Local government; Navy; Military; Disabled persons
- Locations
- Liverpool
- Footage sources
- Gaumont
- Card file number
- 45114
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 145
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