News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

536A

Date Released

14 Sep 1939

Date submitted

11 Sep 1939

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Australia Wins Davis Cup
• 2. America’s View by Roosevelt
• 3. Cinemas Again
• 4. Football Also Starts
• 5. Girls Take over the Land
• 6. The Children’s New Homes
• 7. Lessons by the Briny
• 8. Duchess of Kent Makes Splints
• 9. The Queen and Red Cross
• 10. Their Majesties at ARP Posts

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 10

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Queens Park Rangers V Army. DESCRIPTION: Queen’s Park Rangers versus the Army. SHOTLIST: The players come out onto the field with gas masks and tin hats. They hang these up on the goalposts and then play the soccer match. Army lose.

Keywords

Sport; Safety devices; Football; Military

Footage sources

Great Britain

Card file number

37391

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

46

Story extras:

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