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Johnstone was a Scottish cameraman who began supplying film to Pathe in August 1937, when ‘RECRUITING MARCH IN DUMFRIESSHIRE’ ran in Super Sound Gazette No.37/64. He supplied several items over the next few months, his final credit being for ‘BIG BLAST AT DALBEATTIE’ in No.38/33 of April 1938. Johnstone is also credited with two stories filmed in Iceland in New Series Pictorial No.143 of December 1938 and No.170 of June 1939.

Sources

NoS Number 95023; Pathe Super Gazette; Date released 12/8/1937: NoS Number 95948; Pathe Super Gazette; Date released 25/4/1938: NoS Number 116186; New Series Pictorial Number 143; Date released 22/12/1938: NoS Number 116343; New Series Pictorial Number 170; Date released 29/6/1939.