Learning on ScreenMovietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Contribution of British Movietone News to the British Film Festival of 1948
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Some Press Occasions. DESCRIPTION: A look back at some of the events organised by British newspapers during the last year. SHOTLIST: COMPILATION REEL. Several Credit titles. SCU & CU STILLS Lord Northcliffe. Several shots some early planes, taking off and making short flights. Blenheim bomber takes off, several aerial shots of same in flight. At Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition 1947. Tilt down model of Eros, crowds at exhibition. Queen Mary with Lord Rothermere surveys the exhibition. Enters house. Several interiors of house, sitting and drawing rooms, kitchens etc. At Wembley, night shots - speedway riders parade before start of races. Several shots of races in progress, in which Jack Parker and Bill Kitchin race. At Malden crowds in park at Sunday Pictorial Film Party. Crowds in parks, children on roundabouts. MS Glynis Johns seated at table in open. MS Alfred Drayton. SCU David Farrar. MS Leslie Mitchell. SCU Carole Landis. At Royal Albert Hall, the following seated in boxes, tiers etc., Greta Gynt and Griffiths Jones, Jean Simmonds, Valerie Hobson and Anthony Havelock-Allan. Will Hay surveys scenery. CU Tommy Trinder. Various shots fashion parade dated from 1880, Mr and Mrs Cooper Key receives Jack Warner at the Odeon. Lionel Gamlin interviews Tessie O’Shea. SCU Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard and David Lean. Patricia Roc and Margaret Lockwood re-enact part from Wicked Lady. Galaxy of stars on stage. At Dorchester Hotel, Lord and Lady Rothermere receive guests. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy arrive. Hardy gives Laurel a flower from bowl. Lord Rothermere addresses audience. Margaret Lockwood thanks everybody for award. Lord Rothermere again speaks. James Mason’s recorded voice speaks, cut-ins speaker. Lady Rothermere presents film award to Margaret Lockwood. At the Evening News, people unpacking christmas gifts, repairing same, painting same etc. Huge piles of parcels. Various people ask Anybody seen Mr Marshall, cut-ins of types. Mr Marshall appears from behind pyramid of toys. Gifts being loaded onto van. Van drives away, arrives at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Interior hospital children receive gifts. At Olympia Cocktail Contest, line of judges. Several shots of cocktail shaking. MS Tommy Handley and Jack Train seated. Several shots waiter handing Train cocktails and latter passing remarks. Patricia Roc presents Cup. Tommy Handley and Train behind bar, introduces Train to member of MWB. Train refuses. Roc presents Daily Mail Trophy to finish.
- Local distribution only
- SPECIAL EDITION FOR DAILY MAIL
- Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 49743
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 941
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