News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1086A

Date Released

30 Mar 1950

Date submitted

1950

Date submitted

25 Mar 1950

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Trailer: Nothing in the Bottle
• 2. Combined Navies in Mock Battle
• 3. Nationalist China Prepares to Hit Back
• 4. Native Chiefs Ignore High Commissioner
• 5. Britain’s New Oil Refinery
• 6. Germany Ends Rationing
• 7. 'Appy ‘Ampstead Meets the Skiers
• *Irish Movietone: Railway Cup Finals at Croke Park
• *Rugby International - Wales V France
• *FA Cup Semi-Final - Liverpool V Everton
• *St Patrick’s Parade in New York

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Germany Ends Rationing. DESCRIPTION: The end of rationing in Germany is well illustrated by scenes from Hanover, where they made - if not a song and dance about it - quite a demonstration. SHOTLIST: KS. Man sorting ration books. Several shots of ration books being put in sacks. Sacks being loaded onto cart. Men form up by cart, one holding a wreath, cart moves off, mock funeral procession begins. MS - several of pulp machine churning up the ration books as they are thrown into same. Cut-in horse neighing.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Occupied territories

Locations

Hanover

Footage sources

Welt Im Film

Card file number

53468

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

77

Story extras:

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