Workers Newsreel No. 2

A short workers' newsreel showing clips relating to anti-fascist demonstrations and events, and clips of the Wrexham colliery disaster. Includes footage of a "Release Thaelmann" banner on The Strand in London; an international anti-fascist sports rally in Paris where Barbusse speaks; Russian athletes, 100 kilos cycle road race starting at St. Denis Municipal Cycle Track with English teams Shillibeer, Austin, Harrison, Bristow and Sharpe; the Hyde Park Anti-Fascist Rally September 9th 1934 in which Pollitt, Brockway, Miss Edwards of the Young Liberals, Dorothy Woodman, Papworth and McGovern speak; the Wrexham colliery disaster; and an advertisement for the Daily Worker newspaper.
Complete catalog record
Original source: The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-508017. | Reproduction of: United Kingdom, 1934. 16mm Silent BW pos. | Production Company: Film and Photo League, Kino Production Group.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:10:29) : silent, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Socialism | Workers | Social class | Sports and games | Demonstrations | Protests | Competition | Cycling | Anti-fascism | Fascism | Police | Speeches | Miners and mining | Work and employment | Advertising | Newspapers | London | Wrexham | United Kingdom | Paris | Saint Denis | France | Thälmann, Ernst (1886-1944) | Barbusse, Henri (1873-1935) | Mosley, Oswald (1896-1980) | Pollitt, Harry (1890-1960) | Brockway, Baron Fenner (1888-1988) | Woodman, Dorothy (1902-1970) | Newsreel/Cinemagazine | 1925-1939 | Webcast

Sources

  1. UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record