News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: In Palestine Today

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
494
Date Released
21 Nov 1938
Date submitted
16 Nov 1938
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Story

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1 / 10
Section Title
News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Jack Cotter’s Second Shipment. DESCRIPTION: With Movietone’s Cameraman. SHOTLIST: In the Old City of Jerusalem a patrol of the Black Watch patrol David street. The Wailing Wall is also patrolled and the police are in evidence in front of the Mosque of Omar. At the Jaffa and Damascus Gates natives are searched for illicit arms. On the road to Jericho a convoy of armoured cars moves slowly along. It passes a burned out army lorry. In Jericho, the Coldstream Guards are in control and bunches of Arabs wait, before they are interrogated by an interpreter in an old fashioned garden. Armed train & Arabs repairing lines - 99ft.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Weapons; Railways; Fires; Riots; Military; Cameramen; Newsreels
Footage sources
Palestine
Card file number
34879
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
66
Story extras:
Film clip

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'News Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: In Palestine Today', British Movietone News Issue No. 494, 21 Nov 1938. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/9420 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)