Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Plague of Ducks

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
906A
Date Released
17 Oct 1946
Date submitted
14 Oct 1946
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Churchill Court for British Legion
  2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Judges’ Procession
  3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Jewish Squatters in Palestine
  4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Plague of Ducks
  5. 5Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Science Goes Fishing
  6. 6Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: At the Melbourne Show
  7. 7Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Airborne Meets His Match

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 7
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Duck Plague. DESCRIPTION: In California a huge flock of ducks is attacking the bumper barley harvest. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS GV swarms of ducks flying over barley fields. Various shots of same. Farmers firing shot guns at them to frighten them. Planes swoop down low over the fields also to frighten them, various shots of ducks hovering over barley fields.
Keywords
Curiosities
Locations
California
Footage sources
USM?
Card file number
47622
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
144
Story extras:
Film clip

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