News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1079

Date Released

6 Feb 1950

Date submitted

31 May 1950

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Newsreel Association Having Offered Equal Facilities to the Political Parties, Present in This Issue of the British Movietone News an Interview with Mr Attlee.
• 2. Pre-Election Service & Election in Earnest
• 3. Helmstedt Hold-Up
• 4. Race Horse for Stan Matthews
• 5. Winner Takes All
• 6. Australian Weather Contrasts

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Berlin Road Hold-Up. DESCRIPTION: Once again Allied traffic is being held up by the Russians. At Helmstedt, queues of lorries await passage through the Russian check point to get to Berlin. SHOTLIST: KS. GV control point at above. Ditto. Various shots of lorries queueing, waiting to be allowed to cross border. Filling radiators with hot water. Elevated GV of queues of lorries. Lorries start to move slowly.

Keywords

Occupied territories

Locations

Helmstedt

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

53156

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

62

Story extras:

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