News on Screen

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1143A

Date Released

3 May 1951

Date submitted

30 Apr 1951

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Back to the Army Again Sergeant!
• 2. Festival News
• 3. Turpin Trains for Next Contest
• 4. Danny Kaye Here Again
• 5. Royal Engagements
• *Pugilists Put in Some Hard Training

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival News. 1851 Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: In the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, a centenary display shows the Crystal Palace as originally set up in Hyde Park. At Southampton, where she starts her mobile exhibition, the Festival ship, Campania lies ready to receive the thousands of visitors certain to board her. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Exterior Victoria & Albert Museum. Person up steps entering same. Model of Crystal Palace. Two shots of Queen Victoria’s Chair. Cut-in MS exhibition. CU face-worked electrical telegraph. CU Sportsman’s knife. MS Greek Slave-girl & model rotating. Festival Ship at Southampton - SS Campania. MS Ship alongside quay. Various shots on flight deck, shows workmen putting finishing touches to model etc. Flags flying. Various shots of exhibits include engine, jet engines, etc. SCU name on side of ship & quick pan Festival Ship. At Battersea Park Gardens - several shots on the unfinished site at the above. At South Bank - night shots of the South Bank Festival Site floodlit. Various shots, including the Skylon. Finish on GV of Festival Site all lit-up. Festival Ship - Liverpool. Uncut - Various shots of the Festival Ship Campania at the above Dock. Shots taken from all angles.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Entertainment and leisure; Communications; Industry and manufacture; History and archaeology; Exhibitions and shows

Card file number

55361

Credits:

Camera

Alec Tozer

Camera

David W. Samuelson

Camera

George Richardson

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Camera

James Humphries

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

132

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