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Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1146

Date Released

21 May 1951

Date submitted

15 May 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Festival Fashions and Fabrics
2. 2Can You Beat It?
3. 3Salvador Tragedy
4. 4HRH with Grenadiers
5. 5Back from Malaya
6. 6Paratroops Ready for Anything
7. *Kirkwall’s Diesel Station

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scots Guards Return From Malaya. DESCRIPTION: By rail from Kuala Lumpur, the second battalion, the Scots Guards, went to Singapore to board the Empire Halladale for the voyage to Britain. The battalion, arriving at Liverpool, had some very welcome leave in prospect. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. SCU Line of Scots Guards. . At Kuala Lumpur - shots of men crowded on platform, officers drinking with officials in evening dress. Train loaded with troops pulls out of station. Singapore - Scots Guards marching along quay, boarding the Empire Halladale. Various shots of them lining decks. Pipe band counter marching along quay. Library - Shots of troops passing through jungle, several shots. Troops pass through swamps, up to their waist in water, into camera & out of camera. SCU Malayan prisoner. At Liverpool - Empire Halladale coming in along quayside. Cut-ins crowds waving, troops disembarking, various shots. Line of troops along quay. SCOTS GUARD HOME FROM MALAYA - CARD 55467. Troops on side of ship. Down gangplank. Ship comes in harbour. Troops carrying kit. Ship is the Empire Halladale.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Environment; Railways; Ceremonies; Prisoners of war; Military

Footage sources

Library
Malayan Film Unit

Card file number

55433

Credits:

Camera

James Humphries

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

140

Story extras:

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