News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

603

Date Released

16 Oct 1939

Length of issue (in feet)

640

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. With the French Army in Germany
• 2. War Correspondents with the RAF in France
• 3. Our Empire’s Air Might
• 4. Our Empire’s Air Might
• 5. War Cartoon No 3
• 6. HMS Royal Oak Sunk
• *Paddington Air Raid Precautions Inspection
• *Lunchtime Concert at National Gallery
• *Newmarket Town Plate
• *Horse Training at Newmarket
• *First Berkshire Cubbing Meet at Stratfield Faye [Sic]
• *Explosion on British Steamer "Mahratto"
• *Queen Inspects Hospital Train
• *Neutral Shipping Held Up
• *Personalities Leave for America
• *Sale of Horses in Newcastle
• *Shopping on Horseback
• *Cycling in Wallasey
• *Rumanian Premier’s Funeral
• *Ancient and Modern Cycling in Newcastle
• *Irish Cambridgeshire
• *Cycle Race in Chicago
• *Royal Oak Torpedoed
• *Rail Smash at Bletchley

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Local distribution only

WEST END [LONDON]

Keywords

Railways; Accidents and disasters

Length of story (in feet)

52

Story extras:

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Production Documents

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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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