News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2424

Date Released

24 May 1954

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. First Pictures: Wounded Evacuation Under Way
• 2. News in Flashes
• 3. News in Flashes
• 4. News in Flashes
• 5. News in Flashes
• 6. Queen is City’s Guest
• *Cotton Exchange Reopens

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

French helicopters fly to surrendered fortress, take wounded to Luang Prabang, from which they are transferred to Hanoi hospitals.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Aviation; Colonialism; Independence movements; Casualties; Military

Locations

Dien Bien Phu

Library number

22334

Length of story (in feet)

128

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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