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Series

Series Name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue

Issue No.

749

Date Released

27 May 1918

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. HMS Iris and Daffodil Return after Having Gloriously Assisted the ‘Vindictive’ in Her Successful Enterprise
• 2. Annual Fair at Pinner. An Old Charter Allows the Showmen to Erect Booths on Payment of a Shilling for Every ‘Nail’ Driven into the Street.
• 3. Once a German - Always a German
• 4. Freeman of Glasgow. Gen Smuts Received the Freedom of the City, and Inspects the Boys’ Brigade
• 5. Passing Round the Hat. Wounded Tommies Collecting for the Westminster Hospital
• 6. Their Majesties, Accompanied by Princess Mary, Visit Telephone and Fuse Factory in Essex
• *Lord Beaverbrook Opens Art Exhibition

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

German soldiers committing atrocities eg, killing a baby, setting cities afire. Then turns into travelling salesman. [SUBTITLE]: THIS MAN WHO AFTER THE WAR WILL WANT TO SELL YOU HIS GERMAN GOODS

Researcher Comments

A British Empire Union anti-German propaganda cartoon equating German businessmen with soldiers.

Keywords

Propaganda; Animation

Written sources

Newsfilm Online   Used for additional comments

Library number GR

2313

Length of story (in feet)

193

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Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Phone

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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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