Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Prelude to Famine
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Prelude to Famine. DESCRIPTION: From New Delhi are ominous pictures, men, women and children have trekked from the south in search of food. SHOTLIST: KS GV New Delhi street. Various shots of Indian people, half-starved, just arrived in New Delhi. Trucking shot along roadway, shows them encamped at roadside, in make-shift huts etc. Notice displaying rationing. Indian arrives to collect ration books, same being distributed. Various shots of men, women and children all in a bad way. People begging in streets.
- Keywords
- Food and cooking
- Locations
- India
- Card file number
- 47041
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 101
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Prelude to Famine', British Movietone News Issue No. 889, 17 Jun 1946. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/13899 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)