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- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Internees Home. DESCRIPTION: Arriving at the RAF Station at Abingdon, a Hastings Transport aircraft taxied close up to the crowd waving a welcome; relatives, friends, members of the Salvation Army - all were there to greet the internees back from Korea. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Hastings aircraft taxies. Ditto. Relatives & crowds wave. Internees from Korea alight from plane, led by Captain Vyvian Holt. Crowds embrace internees. Holt speaks about his internment, cut-ins cameramen with sound cameras. CU Holt speaking. Pan to CU Blake, of Seoul Legation, Mr Owen, an internee embraces his wife & child. Owen speaks. Father Thomas Quinlan speaks. Finally Commissioner Lord of Salvation Army speaks.
- Keywords
- Organisations; Politics and government; Mass media; Aviation; Prisoners of war; Military; Religion and belief
- Locations
- Berkshire; Abingdon
- Footage sources
- Pathe
Rota
- Card file number
- 58936
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 257
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