News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

539A

Date Released

5 Oct 1939

Date submitted

2 Oct 1939

Date submitted

29 Sep 1939

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Tientsin Floods
• 2. Routine and Fitness in the RAF
• 3. A World Champion Entertains
• 4. Services Hair Fashions
• 5. Nurses New Uniforms
• 6. Double Stretcher
• 7. Gas-Bag Car
• 8. Anti-Tank Gun Practice
• 9. Unit Bridge Building
• 10. Ladies - ‘Shun!
• 11. Our Young Army Trains
• 12. A Plea to Abolish Officious Secrecy

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 12

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Two Seater Stretcher Demonstrated. DESCRIPTION: The double stretcher enables two casualties to be moved at the same time. SHOTLIST: Two mock air raid casualties are loaded onto the wheeled stretcher and transported from the dug-out where they had been.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Civil defence

Footage sources

Great Britain

Card file number

37542

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

32

Story extras:

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