Tension off Chinese Coast

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1321
Date Released
27 Sep 1954
Date submitted
23 Sep 1954
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Mr Attlee Home
  2. 2Tension off Chinese Coast
  3. 3MP’s Tour Malaya
  4. 4Dutch Parliament
  5. 5Rodeo
  6. 6Man Made Lightning
  7. 7Naval News - HMS Albion
  8. 8Naval News - HMS Cumberland
  9. 9Keenan Ko’s Kelly
  10. *The Queen Mother with Black Watch

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 9
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tachen Islands. DESCRIPTION: Dr Wellington Koo, Chiang Kai Shek’s ambassador to Washington has been touring Nationalist-held islands off the coast of Red China. SHOTLIST: Dr Wellington Koo and party walking towards camera. Being helped out of a trench. Inspecting a model of the Tachen Islands showing the defences. Various explosions in the sea. Shots of the group.
Local distribution only
Not shown in Scotland.
Keywords
Politics and government
Locations
China; Tachen Islands
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
61901
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
69
Story extras:
Film clip

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