Results: Stories
6 results found for '"Government of Hong Kong"' in Footage or Written Source.
Please Send Rain
- Date released
- 4 Apr 1963
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1765A
- NoS ID
- 025047
- Story no
- 4 / 5
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Please Send Rain. DESCRIPTION: Since last September hardly a drop of rain has fallen on Hong Kong. The drought has become so serious that for the first time Hong Kong Buddhists have...
Growing Up in the Orient
- Date released
- 9 May 1963
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1770A
- NoS ID
- 025087
- Story no
- 1 / 6
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Growing Up in the Orient. DESCRIPTION: Buildings in the traditional style are becoming fewer and further between. In Hong Kong they’re building towards the vertical. They still use...
Hong Kong - Duke Gets a Dunking!
- Date released
- 4 Jul 1963
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1778A
- NoS ID
- 025159
- Story no
- 2 / 4
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hong Kong - Duke Gets a Dunking!. DESCRIPTION: The world famous Dragon-Boat Races is really a festival for the fishing community. The Dragon Boats (22 of ‘em) are some 45 feet long....
Viola Visits Hong Kong
- Date released
- 8 Jun 1964
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1827
- NoS ID
- 025566
- Story no
- 3 / 4
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Viola Visits Hong Kong. DESCRIPTION: Viola, a 50 mile an hour typhoon, hit Hong Kong. Although people in the Crown Colony were expecting the worst, little damage was done. In fact, ten...
Ida Has a Mudbath
- Date released
- 17 Aug 1964
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1837
- NoS ID
- 025643
- Story no
- 4 / 4
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hong Kong Hong Kong Ida Has a Mudbath. DESCRIPTION: Ida was the name given to the second typhoon to hit Hong Kong this year. She brought torrential rains, which washed a whole hillside...
Test for Tokyo Hopes
- Date released
- 14 Sep 1964
- Series name
- British Movietone News
- Issue no
- 1841
- NoS ID
- 025676
- Story no
- 3 / 3
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Test for Tokyo Hopes. DESCRIPTION: The three day event at Burghley, Lincolnshire, featured some of our Olympic horses and riders. Four riders and five horses had still to be selected...