Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Slick Spy Botches Simple Launching
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 6
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Miss Hasso Christens US - Sweden Aircraft. DESCRIPTION: Signe Hasso, star of "The House on 92nd Street", had difficulty breaking the bottle whilst christening a new plane. SHOTLIST: KS Miss Hasso, Lauritz Melchoir and His Excellency Herman Eriksson, ascend platform. MS Miss Hasso saying "To carry peaceful commerce between our Scandinavian countries and the United States". CU crashing champagne bottle on side of plane, named "Flagship Scandinavia"; the bottle does not break. After a lot of gestures, moving of mike etc., Miss Hasso succeeds in breaking bottle, the champagne going over her as well as the plane.
- Keywords
- Performing arts; Launchings
- Locations
- New York [state]; La Guardia Airport
- Footage sources
- USM?
- Card file number
- 46484
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 80
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Slick Spy Botches Simple Launching', British Movietone News Issue No. 870A, 7 Feb 1946. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/13724 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)