News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

434

Date Released

27 Sep 1937

Date submitted

24 Sep 1937

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Shanghai
• 2. Reports: Miss America is okay, thanks
• 3. Reports: A Yacht on deck
• 4. Reports: Bull Ring becomes Prison Camp
• 5. Reports: Cranwell Firemen
• 6. Names and News: JA Lyons
• 7. Names and News: Alice Faye - Tony Martin Wedding
• 8. Names and News: Wellington Koo, China’s Representative, speaks at Geneva
• 9. Barnyard: Remarks by Maurice Braddell
• 10. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Rugby in full swing
• 11. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Rugby in full swing
• 12. Harmony

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 12

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: War Footsteps of Pitiful Chinese Imploring Shelter. DESCRIPTION: War dogs footsteps as pitiful Chinese imploring shelter. SHOTLIST: Refugees including close shots of women and children enter the French Settlement in Shanghai past French soldiers. Close shot of woman and child. Shot of the British area sandbagged. Canadian Pacific on doorway of building. Troops in lorries patrol the streets. Shots of sunken river boats and a Chinese Gun boat. Shots of ruined dock buildings. Notice South Shanghai. Fires raging. Corpses in streets. Bombed station. Corpse and shambles.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Fires; Foreign aid; War damage; Exile; Military

Footage sources

New York

Card file number

5711

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

95

Story extras:

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