Hoch Der Lambeth Valk

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
41/103
Date Released
25 Dec 1941
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Quentin Reynolds - Our Special Reporter - Back from Libya
  2. 2America at War
  3. 3Hoch Der Lambeth Valk
  4. *New Cathedral Dedicated
  5. *Melbourne Cup
  6. *Chicago Cattle Show
  7. *Heavyweight Fight

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Researcher Comments
Quick-cut film of Hitler and the German army put to the music of "The Lambeth Walk".
A film ridiculing the Nazis by editing sequences of goose-stepping soldiers, Hitler and party rallies to the music of the ‘Lambeth Walk’. released through the newsreels without MoI acknowledgement. [Thorpe and Pronay, British Offical Films of the Second World War, p81, IWM 1980]. Also known as Germany Calling.
Keywords
Politics and government; Curiosities; Propaganda; Newsreels
Credits:
Editor
Charles A. Ridley
Length of story (in feet)
195
Story extras:
Film clip
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Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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