News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.

40/42

Date Released

23 May 1940

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Convoy Bombed
• 2. Weygand New C-In-C
• 3. Allies Counter Attack
• 4. On the Home Front
• 5. Nazi Kultur
• 6. On the Western Front

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

Barbed wire placed around Government buildings. Aliens arriving at and settling in at an internment camp for foreign nationals. Children at a railway station on the first stage of their evacuation to Wales. Refugees from the lowlands arriving in England and of them at reception centre - also Alexandra Palace which is being used as a refugee reception centre. The Queen inspects women of the Women’s Ambulance Driving Brigade in grounds of Buckingham Palace. After march past they are followed by ambulances which were presented to them by Hollywood film stars.

Keywords

Royalty; Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Women; Displaced persons; Military

Locations

London

Length of story (in feet)

293

Story extras:

Film clip

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Production Documents

• Commentary
• Shot List

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British Pathe Ltd

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Phone

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Notes

Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.

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