News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2015

Date Released

22 Jun 1950

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. President Auriol Sees "Grand Steeplechase"
• 2. Rio Team Leave. Two Men Return from Bogota
• 3. Wightman Cup: Our Tennis Girls - Oh Dear!
• 4. Oil Fire Wrecks New Well
• 5. Holden Wins Marathon Again
• 6. The Brabazon Comes to Town
• *C of I Trailer: The Grain Harvest

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

Paris inaugurates Grande Semaine at fashionable race meeting. President Auriol is among great crowd seeing Meli Melo win big event of the day.

Keywords

Sport; Horse racing; Politics and government

Locations

Auteuil

Library number

18709

Length of story (in feet)

102

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Film Archive

Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

Email

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Web

http://reuters.screenocean.com/

Phone

+44(0)1954 262052

Address

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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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