Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Squatters Continued

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
902
Date Released
16 Sep 1946
Date submitted
11 Sep 1946
Stories in this Issue:

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 8
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Squatters Continued. DESCRIPTION: London’s Communist squatters have now taken over the Ivanhoe Hotel and are now under siege there. SHOTLIST: KS Pan of Ivanhoe Hotel. Police stand outside locked hotel. Squatters look out of window. Comrades outside throw up food, canned food etc. Squatters catching same. MS newspaper reporters pan up to squatter leaning out of window talking to them. Cut-in of policemen seeing that there are no outbreaks of trouble etc. Communist agitator addresses crowd, police arrest him and take him away, shots of him being taken to police court.
Keywords
Social conditions
Locations
Bloomsbury; Ivanhoe Hotel
Card file number
47493
Credits:
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Camera
J. L. Ramsden
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Montague G. Benson
Length of story (in feet)
90
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Squatters Continued', British Movietone News Issue No. 902, 16 Sep 1946. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14039 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)