News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

68

Date Released

2 Oct 1931

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. His Royal Highness on Parade
• 2. Is It War?
• 3. Edison Dead
• 4. Hail Hitler
• 5. Labour Opposes
• 6. New Bridge Game
• *Test Night Eyes

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

World’s greatest inventor dies at 84. Father of electric light, cinema and gramophone passes into the unknown. 1. But his voice today is stilled forever ... his smile a memory. Thomas Alva Edison is dead.

Keywords

Inventions and discoveries

Locations

New Jersey

Library number

565

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

Email

info@screenocean.com

Web

http://reuters.screenocean.com/

Phone

+44(0)1954 262052

Address

124 Horseferry Road,
London
SW1P 2TX

Notes

British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.

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