Two-Way Traffic
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 8
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Two Way Traffic. DESCRIPTION: Some of the Hungarian refugees starting a new life in Britain are doing so at Wapping in East London, at the former hospital of St Georges in the East. There, they are getting every attention needed. Meanwhile the Canadian Immigration Offices have been besieged by people, anxious to try their luck overseas. Australia and New Zealand reports a similar rush. Since the Suez crisis, applications for Canada have risen from 400 in a week to as many as 3,000 in one day. SHOTLIST: HUNGARIAN REFUGEES - CUs of refugees. Refugees enter a hospital in Wapping which was originally St Georges. Soup being dished up. Refugees seated eating soup. MCU children eating soup. Slip pan. EMIGRANTS FOR CANADA - Shot of people looking at a map of Canada. CU of the map. Shot of women filling in an application form. MCU of mother feeding her baby. CU of man. Shot of man helping man and woman to fill in application form. CU ‘Application Forms’ sign. CU of a form being filled in. MCU of women filling in a form. TPS of a lady filling in the form. LS of the emigration office.
- Keywords
- Displaced persons
- Card file number
- 69357
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Camera
- Robert Turner
- Camera
- Samuelson
- Length of story (in feet)
- 59
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