News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

687

Date Released

5 Aug 1940

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Gas Practice on a Warship
• 2. Gas Practice on a Warship
• 3. Scene of the Last Invasion of Britain
• 4. GB Shaw Celebrates 84th Birthday at the Albert Hall
• 5. Roving Camera Reports: Queen with Fruit Harvesters
• 6. Roving Camera Reports: Sailors Help with the Harvest
• 7. Roving Camera Reports: Coastal Defence Troops on and off Duty
• 8. King Takes a Hand at Munition Manufacture
• 9. King Takes a Hand at Munition Manufacture
• 10. German Bombers Fail in Raid on Dover Harbour
• *Tramway Sports in Dublin
• *Yachting Season Opens in US
• *Harvesting in Bushey Park
• *Wedding of Miss C Huggard

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 10

Keywords

Commemorations; Celebrations and festivals; Writers

Length of story (in feet)

45

Story extras:

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