Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Boy Scouts from Fire-Bomb Squad
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 8
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scout Fire Fighters. DESCRIPTION: A London troops of Boy Scouts are among the latest recruits to the great army of fire-bombs fighters. SHOTLIST: Scouts of the 8/10th Holborn troop have formed a fire fighting squad under Scout Master Wingrove and The Reverend Cecil Clark of Christ Church. The scouts provide look outs, and they deal with an incendiary bomb very efficiently, which falls in the church. They are afterwards congratulated by the vicar.
- Keywords
- Organisations; Buildings and structures; Children; Weapons; War damage; Religion and belief; Youth
- Footage sources
- Great Britain
- Card file number
- 40290
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 43
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Boy Scouts from Fire-Bomb Squad', British Movietone News Issue No. 607A, 23 Jan 1941. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/11429 (Accessed 08 Feb 2025)