No Tonic for the Nurses
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Nurses Protest March. DESCRIPTION: Some 10,000 nurses came to Trafalgar Square in London, to demonstrate support of their pay claim. Many carried banners expressing disgust at the Government’s 2 1/2 per cent pay offer. It was the biggest gathering of nurses ever seen in Britain. SHOTLIST: CU of nurses’ faces. The start of the march from Marble Arch. Looking through the Arch as they file past. Marching down Oxford Street. They swing into Trafalgar Square (several). CUs of posters. General view CU of nurses listening to speakers. Pan down Nelson’s Column to general view. Shot of speaker Miss M Burns, Matron of St Helens Hospital, Barnsley.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Labour relations
- Locations
- London; Trafalgar Square; Marble Arch
- Card file number
- 84285
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 68
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