News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

610

Date Released

9 Nov 1939

Length of issue (in feet)

778

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Fleet Air Arm Practice Bombing
• 2. U Boat Prisoners at Work and Play in England
• 3. Roving Camera Reports: Divisional Cinemas Unit Starts Work
• 4. Roving Camera Reports: Routine Work for the RAF in France
• 5. Roving Camera Reports: Barbara Hutton in New York
• 6. Crazy Gang Wrestling at the Holborn Stadium
• 7. Japanese Forces Reach the Bank of the River Mi
• 8. President Harding’s Voyage to New York
• 9. War Cartoon No 5
• *Sandbagging Statues at Westminster Abbey
• *W S Morrison
• *Bombing
• *Wedding of Pamela Chatfield
• *WAAF at Hendon
• *(Untitled record)

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 9

Summary

Including meeting British patrol cruiser "Emile Miguet" after being torpedoed. Rescued crew of the "Heronspool". Passengers injured by rough seas

Keywords

Ships and boats; Weather

Length of story (in feet)

126

Story extras:

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Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Notes

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