Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Czech Issue before UN Council

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

983

Date Released

5 Apr 1948

Date submitted

29 Mar 1948

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: RAF Celebrates - With Meteors
2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Notables Make the News - Mrs Roosevelt Here for Unveiling
3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Notables Make the News - Monty in Belgium
4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Notables Make the News - Pope’s Easter Message
5. 5Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Easter Parade on New York’s Fifth Avenue
6. 6Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Lord Mountbatten Back in Burma
7. 7Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Czech Issue before UN Council
8. *Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Trailer - Scottish Agricultural Camps

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7 / 7

Section Title

Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: United Nations Consider Czech Coup. DESCRIPTION: The Security Council of the United Nations has met to discuss the coup in Czechoslovakia. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS CU emblem of UN. Exterior GV of building of United Nations. MS Interior Security Council (horseshoe) seated. MS Russian delegates seated, include Gromyko. MS Security Council pan to Dr Papanek walking in and round to his place next to Gromyko. SV MS Papanek seated next to Gromyko. SCU Papanek speaking In my letter of March 10th 1948, addressed to the Security Council to investigate the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, I, M Papanak, reject any suggestion that President Benes is a free man. I reject any possibility that he approved the new regime or that he sanctions its actions without having the greatest pressure put upon him. For myself I cannot accept the official explanation (speaking of Jan Masaryk’s death) of his death as suicide. I know that he planned to leave Czechoslovakia and begin work for a new Czechoslovakia, to begin again. Cut-in cameramen shooting. Cut-in Security Council listening.

Locations

New York; United States of America; Lake Success

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

50014

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

143

Story extras:

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