Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Aussies’ Journey Home

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

899

Date Released

26 Aug 1946

Date submitted

20 Aug 1946

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Section Title

Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Victory Contingent Go Home. DESCRIPTION: Australia’s Contingent for the Victory Parade leave from Portsmouth on their journey home. En route they call at Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said and Colombo and their first sight of home is Freemantle. SHOTLIST: KS Aussies walk through ruined London, St Paul’s Cathedral in background. Ditto. GV of HMS Victory at Portsmouth, Aussie troops march past same. Girls and small crowd wave to troops aboard HMS Shropshire, ship pulls away, Aussies wave from deck. LS Gibraltar, troops go ashore, going through streets of Gibraltar. Riding in horse drawn vehicles. Various shots of Aussies seeing Gibraltar. Aboard ship again, LS Valletta Harbour, Malta. Troops ashore at Malta, looking at ruins of the island. Mid-Mediterranean HMS Shropshire stops to give Aussies a swim, shots of them swimming and diving over side of ship. At Port Said, looking through Suez Canal, passing through Suez Canal, transport running along banks, steam transport, engines etc. Camel train takes a rest. GVs of Canal. Defence Memorial in which Aussies played great part. In Colombo. Ceylon, Aussies ride through streets in rickshaw. Others rest at Mount Lavinia, shots of them drinking, other running down beach and going for a swim. Aboard ship, again. LS home, Freemantle, Aussies line deck looking at same.

Keywords

Celebrations and festivals; Victory celebrations

Locations

Portsmouth; Malta; Gibraltar; Suez; Colombo; Freemantle

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

47361

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

230

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