War
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scenes in Italy and Abyssinia After Declaration of War. DESCRIPTION: Scenes in Italy and Abyssinia on eve of declaration of war. SHOTLIST: Italian planes in formation. Bombs bursting. Planes in ‘V’ formation. CU Mussolini. Crowds assembled in the Piazza di Venezia in Rome. Mussolini on balcony making frantic speech. Addis Ababa Shots of the radio station, exterior and interior. Shots of priests and worshippers leaving churches after feast of the end of the Coptic year. Uniformed troops marching. Shots of barefeet and legs marching. Shots of the native troops in native dress and rifles packing into cattle trucks. The train leaves with the troops hanging from the windows. Shot of interior of train and the natives seated with rifles. CU one man. Uniformed officer counts them. Shot of map and arrows showing points of invasion. Interior of radio station transmitting. Pan from bottom to top of tower. CU Emperor Haile Selassie. CU Mussolini wearing helmet.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Vehicles; Weapons; Aviation; Railways; Communications; Military; Religion and belief
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 3962
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Eric Dunstan
- Length of story (in feet)
- 179
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