News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

50/22

Date Released

16 Mar 1950

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Wales Takes Rugby Crown from Ireland
• 2. Eighty Die in World’s Worst Air Crash
• 3. Berlin News Parade
• 4. Down and Outs Race for the Junkheap
• 5. Constitutional Crisis Faces Belgium
• 6. Table Tennis: Bergmann Wins Again
• 7. Basket Ball: Negro Stars for Britain

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 7

Summary

Returning from the Belfast match, seventy-five Welsh rugby fans are killed, together with five of the crew, when their Tudor V airliner crashes near Cardiff.

Keywords

Aviation; Accidents and disasters

Credits:

Camera

John Campbell Gemmell

Length of story (in feet)

80

Story extras:

Film clip

Pathe Icon Pathé

Production Documents

• Commentary
• Shot List

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This series is held by:

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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