Movietone’s News - Reported by Geoffrey Sumner: The Dock Strike

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

995

Date Released

28 Jun 1948

Date submitted

24 Jun 1948

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Geoffrey Sumner: The Dock Strike
2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Geoffrey Sumner: Lord Mountbatten Home
3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Geoffrey Sumner: Republican Convention
4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Geoffrey Sumner: Lord’s Test

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Section Title

Movietone’s News - Reported by Geoffrey Sumner

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Dock Strike. DESCRIPTION: The port of London lies idle as the dockers staged an unofficial strike. At the Albert Hall there was an overwhelming vote to return to work, but outside the docks the vote was the opposite. Troops were brought in to move perishable food. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS GV ships at quayside. Several GVs of ships lying at quaysides waiting to be unloaded. GV Royal Albert Hall (good shots). Dockers leave Albert Hall. MS Mr Deakin walks out. CU Deakin. Elevated crowds of dockers at meeting in dock area. Several GV large crowd of dockers. Strike leader addresses dockers. Dockers raise their cards in agreement with continuing the strike. Troops on lorries out of Wellington Barracks. At the docks, several shots of troops loading lorries with cases of tomatoes from warehouses. GV ships in docks.

Keywords

Labour relations

Locations

London

Card file number

50397

Credits:

Camera

Alec Tozer

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Camera

Martin Gray

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

116

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