News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Trench Round Paris

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
509A
Date Released
9 Mar 1939
Date submitted
Mar 1939
Date submitted
7 Mar 1939
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: London Tastes Spring
  2. 2News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: AFS Rally
  3. 3News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Trench Round Paris
  4. 4News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: The Queen’s Niece Weds
  5. 5News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Iran’s Crown Prince Travel to Egypt
  6. 6News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Episcopal Party in Khartoum
  7. 7News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: News Flashes: Brisbane Q
  8. 8News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Mystery German Plane Crash
  9. 9News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: South Africa’s Giant New Observatory
  10. 10News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Invisibility at Last
  11. 11News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: National Hunt ‘Chase

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 11
Section Title
News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Trenches Dug Round Paris. DESCRIPTION: Excavations around the French capital, where the City walls used to be. SHOTLIST: Work in progress on the system of trenches which will surround the city of Paris. Mechanical and human navvies shovel away the earth and one man finds a bayonet buried in the ground.
Keywords
Weapons; Engineering
Footage sources
France
Card file number
35784
Credits:
Commentator
Alan Howland
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
23
Story extras:
Film clip

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