Round the World with Movietone: US liner aground
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 11 / 19
- Section Title
- Round the World with Movietone
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: SS "President Hoover" Aground. DESCRIPTION: SS "President Hoover". SHOTLIST: The $8,000,000 liner, once bombed by the Japanese, runs into more trouble after having been tossed by storms onto a reef off the island of Formosa. The boats are lowered and the passengers and crew rowed to a small island nearby. All are saved and skeleton crew remains aboard helping to salvage the liner.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- Formosa
- Footage sources
- United States of America
- Card file number
- 32268
- Credits:
-
- Commentator
- Alan Howland
- Commentator
- Carl Bernard
- Commentator
- Enid Lowe
- Commentator
- Ivan Scott
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 33
-
Film clip
• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- AP Archive
- info@aparchive.com
- Web
- http://www.movietone.com
- Phone
- +44 (0)20 7482 7482
- Series held
- View all series held by AP Archive
How to cite this record
'Round the World with Movietone: US liner aground', British Movietone News Issue No. 449A, 13 Jan 1938. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/8394 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)