News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

81

Date Released

8 Oct 1934

Length of issue (in feet)

755

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Duke of Gloucester at Colombo
• 2. Prime Minister Returns
• 3. Roving Camera Reports: General Smuts Arrives in England
• 4. Roving Camera Reports: Welsh Gold for Princess Marina’s Ring
• 5. Roving Camera Reports: Grimsby Fish Dock Opened by Sir H Betterton
• 6. Roving Camera Reports: Japanese Bull Fight
• 7. King and Queen at Kempton Park - Duke of York’s Handicap
• 8. Swimming at Finchley
• 9. Spanish Riots Again
• 10. Bristol Tarzan
• *Birmingham Town Hall Centenary
• *Polo
• *Nottingham Goose Fair
• *Birmingham Town Hall Centenary
• *Bristol Tarzan

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 10

Researcher Comments

Title on film:
Swimmers’ Swan-Song
Summer ends with a water carnival

Keywords

Sport

Locations

London; Finchley

Written sources

Newsfilm Online   Used for synopsis

Length of story (in feet)

60

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Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Phone

+44(0)1954 262052

Address

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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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