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Title:CANADIAN JOURNALISTS LEAVE LONDON [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 297
Other titles:
Summary: A delegation of Canadian newsmen on a Ministry of Information tour leave London for France, July 1918.
Description: The party assembles in twos and threes outside its hotel, and its members are seated one at a time to have formal portrait photographs taken. The man taking the photographs may be G P Lewis, the MoI official photographer. They enter taxies and drive through central London. Arriving at their station, probably Waterloo, they are shown on board their train by two Army staff officers.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
McDowell, J B (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Lewis, G P (person)
Keywords: delegations, Canadian international - informative (object name)
journalism and record, Canadian - press (object name)
journalism and record, British - photographer (object name)
buildings, British - commercial: railway station (object name)
31/3(41) (event)
GB, England & London, SE <Waterloo Station (?)> (geography)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 163 ft; Running time: 3 mins
Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet
Cameraman: the store ledger gives the cameraman as McDowell but this seems unlikely unless he returned to England for the purpose
Summary: see also IWM 273 and IWM 274