We Vote for Women

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2018A
Date Released
8 Feb 1968
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Backstroke Bride
  2. 2Vietnam
  3. 3We Vote for Women
  4. 4Sport Around

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: We Vote for Women. DESCRIPTION: 1968 is the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Suffragette’s victory, culminating their battle for Votes for Women. Movietone recalls the fight - and looks at the achievements Women have won since those early days of Mrs Pankhurst. SHOTLIST: MS Lady Astor walking with women MP’s. CU & GV ditto. MS women Suffragettes marching. CU still photo of Suffragette being arrested. CU another photo - ditto. GV Emily Davison throws herself in front of the King’s horse at the 1913 Derby. CU still photo of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst. CU ditto. LS unveiling of Mrs Pankhurst’s statue. CU statue. MS Margaret Bondfield - 1st woman Cabinet Minister with Ramsay MacDonald. MS photograph of women workers taken from filing cabinet (Scotland Yard). MS women aircraft spotters. MS woman changing tyres. MS women with trucks. MS woman directing traffic. Pan lorry past driven by a woman. MS woman directing traffic. MS women riding motor bikes. MS Mrs Gandhi. CU ditto. CU Mary Quant. CU woman bank manager (Margaret Reid). MS ditto. CU sign President on door. MS Miss Geraldine Jones, President of Oxford Union. CU ditto. CU Mary Rand. MS Mary Rand long-jumping. MS Sheila Scott gets into aircraft. CU sign Solo World Flight. CU Sheila Scott. MS Valentina Tereshkova - woman astronaut. CU Mr Khrushchev. MS Valentina Tereshkova. MLS Margery Hurst at work in office. MCU & CU ditto. GVs women suffragettes marching (4 shots). Extra Scenes in NP 1454 MS woman doctor. CU ditto. MS ditto (COI). MS pan woman judge Mrs Justice Lane.
Keywords
Commemorations; Sport; Horse racing; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Women; Aviation; Business and commerce; Death; Celebrations and festivals; Athletics; Ceremonies; Police; Space; Crime
Locations
London; Oxford; England
Footage sources
Library
Card file number
93216
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
236
Story extras:
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