Post Office Holds Its Own Exhibition

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

135A

Date Released

7 Jan 1932

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Springboks Strike Form in Australia
2. 2Abyssinian Prince’s First Call is Paris
3. 3Local Farmers Join in Humane Stag Hunt
4. 4Post Office Holds Its Own Exhibition
5. 5Butler Beats Them All in Midget Plane
6. 6Big Fight Closure is Booed by Crowds

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Post Office Holds Its Own Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster General, opens his departments show of latest gadgets at Imperial Institute. SHOTLIST: Sir Kingsley Wood opens show and walks around same. Various gadgets are on show including new Fire Alarm, and new Mail Train Coach. The gadgets are explained and the watchers are mostly small boys.

Keywords

Politics and government; Vehicles; Children; Postal services; Inventions and discoveries; Exhibitions and shows

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Movietone

Card file number

1596

Length of story (in feet)

104

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