CANADIAN JOURNALISTS LEAVE LONDON [Main Title]

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  • Title: CANADIAN JOURNALISTS LEAVE LONDON [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 297
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  • 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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • 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
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 297

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