Mr Macdonald Visits Indo-China

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1070A

Date Released

8 Dec 1949

Date submitted

5 Dec 1949

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Lost in the Arctic?
2. 2Britain’s Beat Beasts on Show
3. 3Mr Macdonald Visits Indo-China
4. 4Paris Conference to Make Atlantic Pact Work
5. 5Monty with English-Speaking Union
6. 6Last of the Implacable
7. 7Trailer: Here and There

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mr Macdonald Visits Indo-China. DESCRIPTION: During his recent tour of Indo-China, one of Mr Malcolm Macdonald’s visits was to Emperor Bao-Dai of Vietnam. He also visited the King of Cambodia and many localities in the Northern Province of Tongking. SHOTLIST: KS. MS of procession. Malcolm MacDonald visits Emperor Bao-Dai & presents him with a letter. Several shots of the above smoking the ‘pipe of peace’. MacDonald meets King of Cambodia. Shots of political posters displayed referring to Malaya in town of Tongking.

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government

Locations

Vietnam

Footage sources

France

Card file number

52879

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

83

Story extras:

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