Churchill, BBC footage (Pathé), 1939 - 1944
Scope and Contents
Both Pathé newsreels and uncut footage of Winston Churchill, with and without audio, including: speaking at [?] Fort Jackson [United States], Jun 1942; signing agreements with Polish ministers; watching a northern infantry training school, Nov-Dec 1942; touring [?] Bradford, Yorkshire, Dec 1942; arriving in Ottawa, Canada, for [?]"Some chicken, some neck" speech, Dec 1941; visit to Moscow [Soviet Union]; visiting MS’s anti-aircraft unit at Edenbridge, Kent, June 1944; visit to Canada for 1st Quebec Conference, Aug 1943; with Henry Morgenthau, American Secretary of the Treasury, receiving the Victory Loan bond, c 1942; visiting troops during the Cairo Conference, Nov 1943; with President Franklin Roosevelt and Ismet Inonu, President of Turkey, in Cairo [Egypt]; with King George VI and the Cabinet, c 1944; returning from Quebec and from Casablanca [Morocco], 1943; the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII] and Edouard Daladier [Prime Minister of France] at the Maginot Line, c Dec 1939; tour of southern coastal defences; reviewing London Civil Defence services, Hyde Park, Jul 1941; receiving the freedom of the City of London, Jun 1943; speech to Home Guard parade, London; speech to crew of HMS Hardy, Apr 1940; speech to United States Congress, Dec 1941; in the Western Desert, Aug 1942; Randolph Churchill’s wedding to Pamela Digby [later Pamela Churchill, Pamela Hayward and Pamela Harriman], Oct 1939; the Atlantic Charter meeting, including the voyage out and divine service aboard HMS Prince of Wales, Aug 1941; broadcast as First Lord of the Admiralty on the first ten weeks of war, Nov 1939; audio extracts from the speeches "Their Finest Hour", Jun 1940 and "Be ye men of valour", May 1940.
Dates
- Creation: 1939 - 1944
Creator
- From the Fonds: Soames, Mary, Dame, 1922 - 2014 (née Churchill, writer, wife of Baron Soames) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Access version available.
Extent
1 cassette(s) (1 tape) : video tape
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
H95398
Date information
DateText: The actual tape dates from 9 Feb 1990.
Finding aid date
2017-10-26 08:44:24.317000+00:00
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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