Korea - Clearing Up

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1115A

Date Released

19 Oct 1950

Date submitted

16 Oct 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Motor Show
2. 2Mill Hill Plane Crash
3. 3Churchill Sums Up at Blackpool
4. 4Skiing on the Hudson
5. 5MCC in Australia
6. 6Korea - Clearing Up
7. *Trailer: Cd Corps
8. *Rugby League - England V Wales

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Korea - Clearing Up & Wake Island Meeting. DESCRIPTION: Action in Korea has now swept North far beyond the 38th Parallel and new pictures from Seoul are vivid evidence of the toughness of the battle. Mr Truman leaves Washington Airport on his way to the dramatic rendezvous on Wake Island with General MacArthur. SHOTLIST: KS. Tanks along road - mix. GIs etc. in action (street actions). Various shots of same. Buildings burning. Snipers shooting. Tanks pass along street. Prisoners (only youths) being searched hundreds in camp. Shots of them being handed food in basins & eating same greedily. General MacArthur walks over countryside viewing position, two shots. CU MacArthur. Truman alights from car at Washington Airport. SCU him & his wife. SCU Truman & Acheson. Truman half up gangway into plane turns & waves, posing for cameras.

Keywords

Politics and government

Locations

Korea

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

54471

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

128

Story extras:

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