News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: British Gunboat Hit on Yangtze

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
496
Date Released
5 Dec 1938
Date submitted
2 Dec 1938
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: American Trade Treaty Signed
  2. 2News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: With the RAF in Palestine
  3. 3News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: British Gunboat Hit on Yangtze
  4. 4News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Jewish Refugee Children
  5. 5News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Mr Eden to Visit America
  6. 6News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Fashion, Beauty and Jewels
  7. 7News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Lord Nuffield and the "Iron Lung"
  8. 8News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Cambridge on the River
  9. 9News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Movietone’s Latest Mobile Units
  10. 10News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Christmas Workshop Hard at It
  11. *News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Lord Derby Opens New Gymnasium

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 10
Section Title
News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scenes in Changsha and HMS Sandpiper. SHOTLIST: In the city of Changsha an air raid alarm is sounded and people carrying children and their worldly possessions rush from the scene of terror. On the river. Chinese junks and the steamer "Lungchow" have been sunk but the HMS Sandpiper, a British gunboat, was only slightly hit as the captain Lt Comm WEJ Eames, shows.
Keywords
Ships and boats; War damage; Navy; Military
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
34984
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
36
Story extras:
Film clip

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