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Title: REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1939, a

Reference number: 6630

Date: 1939

Production company: Pathescope

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.54 mins

Description: Newsreel for main events in 1939, footage plus frequent intertitles.

Credits: Pathescope presents

Shotlist: Title, January 1939, Premier visits Rome. (0.16) Brief gvs Prime Minister Chamberlain and Mussolini walking past Italian troops. (0.21) Franco Victory Parade. (0.22) Brief gvs Franco on balcony saluting military parade. (0.29) Pius XII Elected. (0.30) Brief shot enthroned pontiff wearing triple crown. (0.34) French Presidential Visit. (0.35) Arrival at train station, parade on crowd lined street. Buckingham Palace balcony. (1.12) Workman's Grand National. (1.14) gvs horse race, large crowds. [two horses are seen to fall]; c/u winner (1.30) Portsmouth Win Cup. (1.32) Goal, scoreboard 'Wolves 1 Portsmouth 4', gvs crowd. Queen Elizabeth presents cup. (1.55) Royal Tour Begins. (1.54) QE and George VI. boarding ship which then departs. (2.07) l/s Horse race. (2.19) In Their Dominion. (2.21) Gvs Royals meeting people. Royal car on crowd lined street. (2.45) In the United States. (2.46) Brief gvs. (2.59) Welcome Home. (3.01) Royals disembark from ship, welcomed by crowd. (3.32) National Services Rally. (3.35) March past Royals. (3.51) Conscription Introduced. (3.55) Brief gvs Queen Mary inspecting troops. (4.03) "The Chestnut Tree". (4.04) QE and George VI in crowd, performing "Chestnut Tree" (moving arms). Evening Standard headlines "Americans told to leave Britain". "Moscow on the Pact". "Imminent Peril of War - Premier". Children boarding trains for evacuation. (4.42) Poland Resists Invasion. (4.45) Troops, tanks, battlefield. (5.20) England Declares War. (5.22) Houses of Parliament; Churchill walking with Anthony Eden. Chamberlain getting into car. (5.38) Soldiers building sandbag bunkers; women's group filling sandbags (5.57) gvs people wearing gas mask boxes in street (6.04) "Athenia" Sunk. (6.06) People disembarking ship. (6.14) B.E.F. Goes to France. (6.17) Troops boarding ship which departs. Arrival in France. (6.36) George VI pins medal on two airmen; shot of decorated group (6.53) "Cash and Carry". (6.57) Roosevelt signing and blotting papers (7.04) Newspaper headline 'R.A.F.'s Best Day of The War'. Exts. remains of German plane in field. (7.16) bombed buildings (7.22) Russians Bomb Helsinki. (7.25) Bombed buildings on fire. (7.34) The King in France. (7.35) Gvs king visiting troops. (7.53) The End (7.54)