News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

989

Date Released

22 Aug 1940

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Home Guards Have Big Defence Test
• 2. Ship Ablaze Starts Sabotage Enquiry
• 3. Farmers Boys Win Royal Approval
• 4. US Paratroops Quell Forest Fire
• 5. To-Day’s Army Takes Jerks Out of Pt
• 6. RAF Get Germans "Down in the Dumps"

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

Home Guards and regulars in defence exercises, use "Molotov Cocktails".

Keywords

Weapons; Civil defence; Military

Locations

United Kingdom

Library number

9936

Length of story (in feet)

136

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Film Archive

Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

Email

info@screenocean.com

Web

http://reuters.screenocean.com/

Phone

+44(0)1954 262052

Address

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London
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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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