News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue

Issue No.

795

Date Released

4 Nov 1918

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Feeding the Guns Campaign for War Loans at Liverpool
• 2. York Children Help with Potato Crop
• 3. Inter-Allies Conference Frame Demands from Germany
• 4. General House And General Pershing
• 5. Field Marshall Haig Commanding British Forces in France. Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty
• 6. David Lloyd George, the Man of Push and Go

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

NfO synopsis: Colonel House (representing President Wilson) poses for camera. General Pershing (commanding American forces in France) steps onto quayside.

Researcher Comments

Filmed in Jul. 1917 when Gen. Pershing met American troops landing in France.

Keywords

Military

Written sources

Newsfilm Online
ITN Source Database   Used for additional comment

Library number GR

1968

Length of story (in feet)

29

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