Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Home News - Mr Dalton on the 2d Cigarette
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- British Movietone News
Issue
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 7
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dr Dalton on the 2d Cigarette. DESCRIPTION: Mr Dalton explains the 2d on cigarettes and why he wants smokers to cut down. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS SCU No 11 Downing Street door. Interior - MS & CU (4 & 2) of Dr Dalton speaking about the increase in the cost of cigarettes, as per copy herewith. No 11 Downing Street is the residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Researcher Comments
- Speech: Dalton said: I realise that the increased Tobacco Tax is a bit of a shock and I want you to be quite clear why it is necessary. We buy our tobacco overseas and pay for most of it with our all too precious dollars we earn from the United States for our fine quality manufactured goods. We need these dollars much more to buy food and machinery for our industries. It is clear that our national duty is to smoke less; we can save 30 million dollars if every smoker has three cigarettes or three pipe this year for every four he or she smoked last year. If so, we shall still be smoking as much as we did pre-war. Believe me, it is not your extra ‘bob’ I want the dollars; the choice is simply food - or fags.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Health and medicine
- Locations
- 11 Downing Street, London
- Card file number
- 48454
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Length of story (in feet)
- 107
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