Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Home News - Mr Dalton on the 2d Cigarette

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
933
Date Released
21 Apr 1947
Date submitted
18 Apr 1947
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 7
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dr Dalton on the 2d Cigarette. DESCRIPTION: Mr Dalton explains the 2d on cigarettes and why he wants smokers to cut down. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS SCU No 11 Downing Street door. Interior - MS & CU (4 & 2) of Dr Dalton speaking about the increase in the cost of cigarettes, as per copy herewith. No 11 Downing Street is the residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Researcher Comments
Speech: Dalton said: I realise that the increased Tobacco Tax is a bit of a shock and I want you to be quite clear why it is necessary. We buy our tobacco overseas and pay for most of it with our all too precious dollars we earn from the United States for our fine quality manufactured goods. We need these dollars much more to buy food and machinery for our industries. It is clear that our national duty is to smoke less; we can save 30 million dollars if every smoker has three cigarettes or three pipe this year for every four he or she smoked last year. If so, we shall still be smoking as much as we did pre-war. Believe me, it is not your extra ‘bob’ I want the dollars; the choice is simply food - or fags.
Keywords
Politics and government; Health and medicine
Locations
11 Downing Street, London
Card file number
48454
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Camera
Martin Gray
Length of story (in feet)
107
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Home News - Mr Dalton on the 2d Cigarette', British Movietone News Issue No. 933, 21 Apr 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14402 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)