New Liners

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1461
Date Released
3 Jun 1957
Date submitted
30 May 1957
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 8
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Liners. DESCRIPTION: A twenty foot model of a new French liner, on trial in a test tank in Paris. The liner to be named France, will be laid down at Saint Nazaire this Autumn. She’ll be a giant ship of 50,000 tons, carrying some two thousand passengers and will have a speed of thirty knots. SHOTLIST: SCU model of France. GV in tank. Closer model in tank riding the artificial swell. General views. CU remote control gear. CU. General view. SCU.
Keywords
Ships and boats
Locations
France; Paris
Footage sources
France
Card file number
70868
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
83
Story extras:
Film clip

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'New Liners', British Movietone News Issue No. 1461, 3 Jun 1957. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/21718 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)