Britain’s Back to the Wall

Series

Series Name: British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

1670

Date Released

3 Mar 1947

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

How the country weathered the crisis by the skin of its teeth is the theme of this nationwide survey of Britain in the grip of arctic winter. Frozen sea, snowbound railways, moving coal supplies, and close views of men and women toilers who brought us through are features of this film report.

Keywords

Weather

Locations

London; Peterborough; England; Northamptonshire

Library number

16029

Credits:

Camera: Arthur W. Farmer
Camera: Douglas H. J. Hardy
Camera: Edward Henry Hawkins
Camera: Ian Duncan Struthers
Camera: James F. Gemmell
Camera: Ronald L. Read

Length of story (in feet)

306

Story extras:

Production Documents

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