News In A Nutshell (1936)

Title missing - News in a Nutshell. Intertitle - ’Hoxton’ (London) - L/S of condemned houses which only have a few walls left standing, a man hammers a plank against the bottom to undermine the foundations. They push one wall and it collapses on the others and pushes them over like dominoes. Intertitle - ’The Clyde’ (Scotland) - L/S archive footage showing an aerial shot of the liner L’Atlantique on fire in the sea, now it is being towed to the shipbreakers yard. Various shots as tugs pull the burnt out shell up the river Clyde. Various shots of the ship showing the huge amount of fire damage. M/S of its name, L/S of the charred exterior and funnels. Intertitle - ’Somaliland, South Front’ - L/S of a convoy of motor tractors carrying boats across the land and through water. L/S of a camel train carrying supplies. M/S of sheep jumping from floating platform to the land. Intertitle - ’Harrow’ (Greater London) - L/S as the camera pans across hundreds of boys wearing their uniforms and straw boa
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