News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Vigilance in the Holy Places

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

494A

Date Released

24 Nov 1938

Date submitted

18 Nov 1938

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Vigilance in the Holy Places
2. 2News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: China - The Fate of Two Cities
3. 3News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Mr Chamberlain off to France
4. 4News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: In Memoriam - Queen Maud
5. 5News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Turkey Mourns Kemal Ataturk
6. 6News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: King Farouk Receives Congratulations
7. 7News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Tiger Quins
8. 8News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Peanut Pushers
9. 9News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Trial Eights at Oxford
10. 10News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Motor-Cycling on the Moors
11. 11News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Veterans of Velocity

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 11

Section Title

News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Jack Cotter’s Third Shipment. DESCRIPTION: Bethlehem under military control. SHOTLIST: In Bethlehem in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity an armoured car stands and from the rooftops soldiers of the Worcester regiment keep guard with a Bren gun on the Field of Boaz below. A convoy leaves for Jerusalem and outside one of the new concrete pill-boxes, a traveller shows his pass. Camels and other beasts of burden are searched by soldiers for illicit goods and arms.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Weapons; Terrorism; Animals; Military; Cameramen; Religion and belief; Newsreels

Footage sources

Palestine

Card file number

34889

Credits:

Commentator

Alan Howland

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

60

Story extras:

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