Round the World with Movietone: US liner aground

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
449A
Date Released
13 Jan 1938
Date submitted
10 Jan 1938
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Round the World with Movietone: Peaceful London
  2. 2Round the World with Movietone: The Cambridge crew in Training
  3. 3Round the World with Movietone: Red Cross supplies for China
  4. 4Round the World with Movietone: Finding the lady - selecting Miss France
  5. 5Round the World with Movietone: Breaking the ice
  6. 6Round the World with Movietone: Struggle for Teruel
  7. 7Round the World with Movietone: Smoothing the Cop
  8. 8Round the World with Movietone: The Royal Wedding
  9. 9Round the World with Movietone: Crown Prince Michael of Romania inspects troops in Greece, Prince & Princess Nicholas of Romania skiing in Kitzbuhel
  10. 10Round the World with Movietone: King Peter of Jugo-slavia
  11. 11Round the World with Movietone: US liner aground
  12. 12Round the World with Movietone: President Roosevelt Address Congress
  13. 13Round the World with Movietone: Two-man Tank
  14. 14Round the World with Movietone: Flowers in Season
  15. 15Round the World with Movietone: Sun Valley, Idaho - Bathers and snow
  16. 16Round the World with Movietone: US Marines arrive in Shanghai
  17. 17Round the World with Movietone: Nanking’s Ordeal
  18. 18Round the World with Movietone: Joy in little ‘Tokyo’
  19. 19Round the World with Movietone: The Rice Queue in Shanghai

Story

Story No. within this Issue
11 / 19
Section Title
Round the World with Movietone
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: SS "President Hoover" Aground. DESCRIPTION: SS "President Hoover". SHOTLIST: The $8,000,000 liner, once bombed by the Japanese, runs into more trouble after having been tossed by storms onto a reef off the island of Formosa. The boats are lowered and the passengers and crew rowed to a small island nearby. All are saved and skeleton crew remains aboard helping to salvage the liner.
Keywords
Ships and boats; Accidents and disasters
Locations
Formosa
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
32268
Credits:
Commentator
Alan Howland
Commentator
Carl Bernard
Commentator
Enid Lowe
Commentator
Ivan Scott
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
33
Story extras:
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