News Briefs: Anniversary Celebrations

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1279

Date Released

7 Dec 1953

Date submitted

1 Dec 1953

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Section Title

News Briefs

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Anniversary Celebrations. Colomb Bechar. DESCRIPTION: In Algeria - some 300 miles south of Oran - a celebration was recently held to mark the 50th birthday of the town of Colomb Bechar. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. MS ceremony. Algerian visitors on camels. Mr Roger Leonard, General Governor of Algeria and Mr Hutin, General Secretary of Protectorate walk to Memorial to Marshal Lyautey, founder of the town. This memorial is unveiled to mark 50th birthday of Colomb Bechar. Cut-in native Guard of Honour. Various views of ceremony. A baroud held for personalities present. This is a rifle dance. Natives playing weird instruments. Firing rifles in dance etc.

Keywords

Commemorations; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Weapons; Celebrations and festivals; Ceremonies; Animals; Military

Locations

Algiers

Footage sources

France

Card file number

60164

Credits:

Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name: AP Archive
Email: info@aparchive.com
Web: http://www.movietone.com
Phone: +44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held: View all series held by AP Archive

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 35 times.