News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

49/68

Date Released

25 Aug 1949

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Football Season Opens in Cricket Weather
• 2. Boy Ambassadors Tour Canada
• 3. News from the Air: Sir Stafford Cripps Arrives Home
• 4. News from the Air: Twenty-four Killed in Dakota Air Crash
• 5. Army Men Freeze in ‘Frig
• 6. French Forest Fires Kill 71

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

Fifty British schoolchildren start coast to coast tour of the Dominion on a goodwill mission.

Keywords

Youth

Locations

Toronto; Canada; Niagara Falls

Length of story (in feet)

90

Story extras:

Film clip

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Production Documents

• Commentary
• Shot List

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Film Archive

Name

British Pathe Ltd

Email

info@britishpathe.com

Web

https://www.britishpathe.com/

Phone

0207 665 8340

Address

3.29 Canterbury Court
1-3 Brixton Road
London
SW9 6DE

Notes

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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