News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1217

Date Released

29 Sep 1952

Date Other

Sep 1952

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Queen Mother Visits Grangemouth
• 2. Largest Tanker Launched
• 3. Personality Column: Rocky Marciano
• 4. Personality Column: Jacqueline Auriol
• 5. Personality Column: Jon Gresham
• 6. Oceanic News Items
• 7. Oceanic News Items
• 8. Oceanic News Items
• 9. East Germans Booed in Bonn
• 10. Eritrea Passes to Ethiopia
• 11. Highlanders Home from Korea
• *Great Welcome for Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 11

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wake Island. DESCRIPTION: WAKE ISLAND TYPHOON - Far out in the Pacific, lonely but historic Wake Island has suffered disaster from a recent Typhoon. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Aerial of Wake Island. Ground shots of destruction caused by Typhoon. Very bad.

Keywords

Weather; Environment; Accidents and disasters

Card file number

57865

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

39

Story extras:

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