Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Polar Food Storehouse Opened

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
925
Date Released
24 Feb 1947
Date submitted
20 Feb 1947
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 8
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Admiral Byrd’s Polar Food Supply. DESCRIPTION: Fifteen years ago Admiral Byrd’s South Pole Expedition built a storehouse in the ice. This store has just been re-opened and everything was found intact. SHOTLIST: KS Stars & Stripes flying over Little America. Exterior GV of storehouse. Dog drawn sledges make their way over snow. Explorer goes down cave. Interior - walking through the caves which they built 15 years ago to store food, shine torch on cases of food, brushes snow off same, lifts up one of the cases and carries it away. Pulling hard frozen hams off shelves, breaking ice off same with an axe. SCU axe hitting ham.
Keywords
Exploration and explorers
Locations
Antarctica; Little America
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
48204
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
63
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Polar Food Storehouse Opened', British Movietone News Issue No. 925, 24 Feb 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14321 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)