Polar News

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1400A

Date Released

5 Apr 1956

Date submitted

3 Apr 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Royal Maundy
2. 2Easter Parade
3. 3Easter Parade
4. 3Easter Parade
5. 4News in Brief: Sir Winston - Honorary Citizen
6. 5News in Brief: Landslide in Brazil
7. 6News in Brief: Philadelphia Explosion
8. 7News in Brief: The Last B52
9. 8Polar News
10. 9Polar News
11. *The Mayor of Doncaster

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

9 / 9

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Polar News - Governor General Massey. DESCRIPTION: Then to the opposite Pole, to fly over the Arctic snow peaks with Canada’s Governor General Vincent Massey. He decided to cross the North Pole during his tour of the Northern territories. SHOTLIST: CU Vincent Massey seated in plane. Aerial shot of the snow covered mountains as taken from the plane. CU of a time capsule??. Aerial shot of the mountains. Baffin Island - Vincent Massey alights from plane. Panning shot of Eskimos. Vincent Massey talking to Eskimo with baby on her back. Eskimo children jumping up and down. Interior of igloo with Vincent Massey inside with Eskimos. Vincent Massey alights from igloo. Vincent Massey stroking a dog. Vincent Massey on a sleigh shakes child’s hand.

Keywords

Politics and government; Environment; Independence movements

Locations

Arctic; North Pole

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

66466

Credits:

Commentator

David Lewis Jacobs

Length of story (in feet)

110

Story extras:

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