News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2111A

Date Released

20 Nov 1969

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Moratorium
• 2. Building Business
• 3. News Scene: About the Best Known Country Town in Australia is Gundagai. Certainly the Man Who Knows It Best is Bruce Dennis, the Postman with His Faithful Horse, Lollie, He’s Been Delivering the Mail Round Gundagai for Nearly Twenty Years.
• 4. On the Road

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Moratorium. DESCRIPTION: Two thousand demonstrators file past the American Embassy in London as part of the international support to the Washington March of Death, in protest against the war in Vietnam. SHOTLIST: GV American Embassy. MS street sign Grosvenor Square. GV Embassy & demonstrators. MS demonstrators. 2 shots signs of protest. Series of shots demonstrators file past Embassy. MS demonstrators put the names of men killed in Vietnam into an effigy of a coffin. MCU demonstrators ditto. MCU coffin. M demonstrators holding names of victims. MCU name MP Reilly. MS & MCU ditto. GV demonstration. LAS America’s emblem of an eagle. 5 shots demonstrators play dead as others put names into coffins.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Demonstrations

Locations

London; United Kingdom; Grosvenor Square; American Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London

Card file number

95371

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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