News Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Children Go Happily

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
535
Date Released
4 Sep 1939
Date submitted
2 Sep 1939
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
8 / 12
Section Title
News Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Evacuees Children Go Happily. DESCRIPTION: The children are evacuated to the countryside. SHOTLIST: MCU children with gas masks & labels on (x4). GV file of children towards camera down street (x2). Another angle ditto. LS Suburban station platform with children filing along it. GV Station. Children onto train. GV children being put onto train (x2). CU childrens faces filling screen. TS train pulls out of station with children waving from windows (x2). MS on train boy & girl look out of window. CU young child eats a banana. MCU boy hidden behind a comic with younger girl looking on. CU girl of about eleven. CU girl eating a sandwich. CU boy hugging his sister. MCU boy tries on his gas mask. GS looking out of window. GV children led from station (x4). Pan across School playground with mass of evacuees. MS children given cups of tea (x3). MCU small boy drinking tea. GV pan children drinking tea (x2). CU smiling boy with tag around his neck.
Keywords
Food and cooking; Railways; Safety devices; Evacuees
Card file number
37414
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
113
Story extras:
Film clip

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'News Pageant of Movietone - Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Children Go Happily', British Movietone News Issue No. 535, 4 Sep 1939. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/10230 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)