Sweet and Hot

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2004
Date Released
30 Oct 1967
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sweet & Hot. DESCRIPTION: In case you think of Australia as all sheep and deserts, consider the Tropical Sugar Country of Queensland, rich in abundant variety. Sugar Cane, Tea, Bananas, Pineapples, Timber. They’re all here, round the town of Inisfail. SHOTLIST: Aerial shot over Johnstone River in Queensland, Australia. GV pan Inisfail Town. MS marble statue of a cane-cutter built to commemorate Queensland’s Centenary in 1959, pan down ditto. GV train past carrying sugar cane - pan to cane fields. MS man during Sugar Festival loading cane onto truck. MS another, ditto, MS ditto. MS machine unloading cane off truck during festival. CU driver at controls. MS cane being reloaded onto truck. CU ditto - the driver in background. CU machine at work cutting tea shoots. MCU man at controls. GV pan tea plantation. MS men cutting bunch of bananas. CU bunch of bananas stacked. CU pineapple being cut. MLS men. CU ditto. MS men finish contest. LS men during tree-topping contest. MS ditto. MS log being moved by crane in timber forests of Great Dividing range. MCU log on machine in timber factory. CU ditto. MS woman walks from camera carrying piece of plywood. MS veneer of plywood coming from machine. GV pan motor boat past on river at Innisfail. MLS tourists walking beside water fall. LS local diver dives from top of water fall. GV people running on beach. MS tourists looking at the marble statue of a can cutter. Pan up to statue.
Keywords
Sport; Buildings and structures; Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Environment; Agriculture; Railways; Celebrations and festivals; Forestry; Fisheries; Animal husbandry; Scenery and travel
Locations
Australia; Queensland
Footage sources
Australia
Card file number
92902
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
191
Story extras:
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'Sweet and Hot', British Movietone News Issue No. 2004, 30 Oct 1967. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27106 (Accessed 08 Feb 2025)