Sirocco

Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

618

Date Released

7 Dec 1939

Length of issue (in feet)

632

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Captured German Ships in British Port
2. 2The "Dalyryan" and the "San Colisto" Sunk by Mines
3. 3Survivors from German U Boat Landed
4. 4Ambulances Given by the Royal Order of Buffaloes
5. 5Stars Give Concert to the BEF
6. 6Roving Camera Reports: Roosevelt Lays Foundation Stone for Library
7. 7Roving Camera Reports: Albanian Royal Guards Receives New Colours
8. 8Lithuanian Troops Enter Vilna
9. 9Map Making and Interrogating German Prisoner by the French
10. 10Flanagan and Allen Interview a German Prisoner
11. *King Farouk Opens Parliament
12. *World’s Fair Closes
13. *Cliff Fall Near Dover
14. *National Gallery Concert
15. *Autos Racing in America
16. *Blasting for Sacramento Dam
17. *Nobel Prize Winner in America
18. *Giant Panda Arrives in US
19. *Queen’s Book for the Red Cross
20. *Sirocco
21. *Radium Bomb Well in London
22. *Duke of Kent at Edinburgh
23. *Salvaging HMS "Gypsy"
24. *Damaged Destroyer in the Tyne
25. *BEF Road Making
26. *Bonnett

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

Lavender from source.

Footage sources

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