Cooling Off

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1572
Date Released
20 Jul 1959
Date submitted
20 Jul 1959
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
7 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cooling Off. DESCRIPTION: Keeping cool in a heat wave - here’s how Berliners treated a temperature of a hundred degrees, the hottest since 1830. Kids in bathing dress, gentlemen in evening dress, trying to keep cool! SHOTLIST: TS people bathing. GV swimming pool. Same chute, closer same children down chute, closer kid into water. CU baby with toy duck. LS penguin. TS people sunbathing. MS fat women. FS fat gentleman. CU walrus.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Weather; Curiosities; Birds; Animals
Locations
West Germany
Footage sources
Germany
Card file number
77666
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
59
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Cooling Off', British Movietone News Issue No. 1572, 20 Jul 1959. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/23129 (Accessed 18 Jul 2025)