A further 12,404 newsreel production documents are now available on
the British Universities Newsreel Database [BUND]. These include
Pathe News documents from June 1953 to March 1960 and Gaumont
British News commentaries covering the period June 1953 to October
1954. This brings the total number of digitised documents on the
BUND to 73,000.
This period includes coverage of the Hungarian uprising of November
1956 [Pathe News 56/88 - 56/90] which has some dramatic
dopesheets, 'Rushed from Budapest a few hours before the
Russians took over - dramatic pictures of how it all started'
['Hungarian Tragedy', Pathe News 56/90, BUND 107400].
Linda
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Linda Kaye
BUNSP Project Manager
British Universities Film and Video Council
77 Wells St
London
W1T 3QT
Tel: 020 7393 1518
Fax: 020 7393 1555
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http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels
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