Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Czech Issue before UN Council

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
983
Date Released
5 Apr 1948
Date submitted
29 Mar 1948
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Story

Story No. within this Issue
7 / 7
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: United Nations Consider Czech Coup. DESCRIPTION: The Security Council of the United Nations has met to discuss the coup in Czechoslovakia. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: KS CU emblem of UN. Exterior GV of building of United Nations. MS Interior Security Council (horseshoe) seated. MS Russian delegates seated, include Gromyko. MS Security Council pan to Dr Papanek walking in and round to his place next to Gromyko. SV MS Papanek seated next to Gromyko. SCU Papanek speaking In my letter of March 10th 1948, addressed to the Security Council to investigate the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, I, M Papanak, reject any suggestion that President Benes is a free man. I reject any possibility that he approved the new regime or that he sanctions its actions without having the greatest pressure put upon him. For myself I cannot accept the official explanation (speaking of Jan Masaryk’s death) of his death as suicide. I know that he planned to leave Czechoslovakia and begin work for a new Czechoslovakia, to begin again. Cut-in cameramen shooting. Cut-in Security Council listening.
Locations
New York; United States of America; Lake Success
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
50014
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
143
Story extras:
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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Czech Issue before UN Council', British Movietone News Issue No. 983, 5 Apr 1948. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/15037 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)