News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

442A

Date Released

25 Nov 1937

Date submitted

18 Sep 1937

Date submitted

23 Nov 1937

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. China: with words by Leslie Mitchell
• 2. Names and News: Lord Beaverbrook
• 3. Names and News: Sir Harry Twyford
• 4. Names and News: Mr Thoes Bernard
• 5. Names and News: Princess Baba weds
• 6. Names and News: General Gouraud
• 7. Fashions: Described by Beryl de Querton
• 8. Champions
• 9. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Mud wrestling in New Orleans
• 10. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Kangaroo hunt by motor
• 11. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Motor Cycle Trials on the Yorkshire Moors
• 12. Sports: Reported by Alan Howland: Diving in California

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 12

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Camera Tells Drama of Doomed Battalion When Shanghai Falls. DESCRIPTION: Camera tells drama of doomed battalion when Shanghai falls. SHOTLIST: Close shot of shells bursting over Shanghai. Camera shakes in one shot. Firing from window of building. Shot of Chinese Flag flying. Shot of Movietone cameraman Eric Mayell taking the pictures. Shots of Japanese infantry storming warehouse while Chinese battalion hold out inside. Japanese soldiers running across to the building and lobbing across hand grenades. Refugees walk along railway track to Chapei. Refugees are helped by Tommies into the British settlement. Shot of officer in charge (Brigadier General Telfer-Smollett). Fires raging in Shanghai. Walls fall. Pall of smoke over the city. Tokyo - Shots of Japanese girls in procession with flags. Close shots to camera. Night shot of lantern procession. Close shots of procession. Close shots of lantern. Refugees in China. Helped by British Tommies. One in rickshaw. Others with babies in baskets. One baby in basket close to camera.

Keywords

Mass media; Vehicles; Women; Weapons; Railways; Fires; Ceremonies; Foreign aid; War damage; Exile; Military; Cameramen; Newsreels

Footage sources

New York

Card file number

5874

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

133

Story extras:

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