Three Hundred Perish in Cyclone Weekend
Series
- Series Name
- British Paramount News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Summary
- From air and many stricken points from Yorkshire to Kent Paramount cameramen bring dramatic film report of wide-spread disaster. Story includes survivors from "Princess Victoria" ferry at Donaghadee Harbour. Forty-eight hours later. Calamity reveals its full scale. On aftermath of floods further films show plight of Halland, in addition to many more places in England.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Weather; Accidents and disasters; Newsreels
- Footage sources
- Gaumont British
Polygoon
- Library number
- 21109
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- Arthur William Kingston
- Camera
- Edward Henry Hawkins
- Camera
- James F. Gemmell
- Camera
- Len W. Dudley
- Camera
- Phil John Turner
- Camera
- Ronald L. Read
- Length of story (in feet)
- 662
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Production Documents
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
- 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.
- Series held
- View all series held by Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
How to cite this record
'Three Hundred Perish in Cyclone Weekend', British Paramount News Issue No. 2289, 5 Feb 1953. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/44228 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)