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Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1681

Date Released

21 Aug 1961

Date submitted

14 Aug 1961

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Get Ready, Collectors
• 2. Over the Alps by Balloon
• 3. Good Deed - Good Cause
• 4. The Last Tribute
• 5. Going Places

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Going Places. DESCRIPTION: West Country holiday-makers have long been able to cross the Tamar River, that divides Cornwall from Devon, by railway. Motorists have had to use the ferry. But this will soon be obsolete, for a magnificent road bridge is expected to be open in November. The new bridge will be a real boon. So will the completion of the new Banff - Jasper highway in Canada. At one point, they’re building a steel bridge over 300 feet long. It will cross Nigel Creek, 200 feet above it. Tourist traffic is already going through this new highway, using parts of the old road as well as the new. And here’s something that can take a mountain in its stride. A new six-wheel amphibious load carrier, rightly called The Stalwart. It is a new Alvis product. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS railway bridge over Tamar River. MLS car boarding ferry. MS bridge structure. MLS car ferry. LS pan from railway bridge to new bridge. LS span car bridge. GV car bridge. LS Banff - Jasper highway. GV Rocky Mountains. LS bear. LS moose. LS another. GV pan the Rockies. MS machine clearing roadway. MLS bulldozer. MS earth sliding down. LS construction of bridge. LS pan same. Pan down creek. MLS crane. MS man walking across creek. MS workmen drilling. CU same. MS detonator. LS explosion. LS highway. MLS traffic. MS gravel layer. MCU same. LS machines on highway. GV mountains. MLS Stalwart over hump. MS pan Stalwart cruising. MS pan Stalwart over rough country. MS tracking Stalwart. MS pan Stalwart enters water. LS tracking Stalwart in water. MS Stalwart swimming. MCU pan across cabin. MS Stalwart comes out of the water.

Keywords

Vehicles; Engineering

Locations

United Kingdom; Canada

Footage sources

National Film Board of Canada
Plymouth Films
Random Films

Card file number

82993

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

236

Story extras:

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