Nation Looks to Defence and Attack

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2025

Date Released

27 Jul 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1King Leopold Returns
2. 2Nation Looks to Defence and Attack
3. 3News in Flashes: Stop Press
4. 4News in Flashes: Stop Press
5. 5News in Flashes: Stop Press
6. 6New Church for Dutch: Princess Irene Lays Foundation Stone in London
7. 7Dramatic Rearguard Action
8. *Seventeenth National Championships: Aren’t Our Policemen Athletic

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 7

Summary

New school for Civil Defence volunteers puts first batch through intensive training. Bideford Regular Army anti-aircraft gunners practise landing 3.7 guns and going into action.

Keywords

Weapons; Civil defence; Military

Length of story (in feet)

147

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Film Archive

Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Web

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Address

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Notes

British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.

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