News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

259

Date Released

22 Jun 1936

Length of issue (in feet)

772

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Ascot Gold Cup Won by "Quashed"
• 2. Partial Eclipse of the Sun Taken at Stonehenge
• 3. Britain’s Fastest Fighter Plane Does over 300 MPH
• 4. Roving Camera Reports: Melbourne Head of the River Race
• 5. Roving Camera Reports: Haile Selassie at Lord Inverclyde’s Home in Scotland
• 6. Roving Camera Reports: US Warships Arrive at Portsmouth
• 7. Roving Camera Reports: US Caveman’s Wedding
• 8. Roving Camera Reports: Max Schmeling Beats Joe Louis
• 9. Philadelphia Society Girls in Fashion Parade
• 10. America Retains the Westchester Cup - England Beaten in Second Match at Hurlingham
• 11. The "Queen Mary" Wins the Blue Riband
• *Rose Queen Crowned at Bisham
• *Children’s Sports and Carnival at Coventry
• *Ascot Gold Cup

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

10 / 11

Keywords

Horses

Length of story (in feet)

129

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Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Phone

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Notes

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